The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Thousands of newly freed slaves followed the Union Army’s “March to the Sea” in the hopes of protection as they left bondage ...

Even when a speaker is divisive, the office they hold — and the ideas they bring — demand engagement, not retreat. That is ...

If there is one general that could be considered as having single-handedly lost the Civil War for the Confederates, it’s John ...

The Decorative Arts Center of Ohio is located at 145 E. Main St. in Lancaster. Exhibitions are free to view. Groups may ...

SOMEWHERE TOWARD FREEDOM: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation, by Bennett Parten Commanding an army of some 60,000 men, in late 1864, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh ...

The commanding general of the U.S. Army in 1875 wedded both dispositions. William Tecumseh Sherman was no ideologue, but he was a trained soldier who believed violence needed to put down by ...

Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...