Nov. 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1791, Georgetown University, in what is now Washington, D.C., opened as the first Roman Catholic college in the United States. In 1864, Union General ...

During the Civil War, Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and his troops arrived in Savannah, Georgia, days before Christmas in 1864. The city was their final stop on Sherman's March to the Sea, ...

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was a surprising instrument of emancipation. Although raised in Ohio and firmly wedded to the Union cause when the nation erupted into civil war, he was a racist who ...

The Green-Meldrim House in Savannah, Georgia, is linked to two historic Christmases. In 1864, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman used the house as his headquarters and offered Savannah to President Lincoln ...

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Prologue : Death stared us all in the face -- My father named me William Tecumseh -- I was notified to prepare for West Point -- In the service of my country -- Sand and sun, Seminoles and Spaniards - ...

STARKVILLE — A new edition of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s memoirs has been annotated by some of the nation’s leading Civil War scholars at Mississippi State University—an effort marking 150 years ...

William Tecumseh Sherman's home once stood in what is now the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood. The Sherman family home at 912 North Garrison Avenue, where they lived off and on until 1886, when William ...

War is hell, Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, once uttered — as it surely was in his time and through much of the ...

As the founding executive director of LSU’s Louisiana Emerging Technology Center and a current economic development professional, I urge LSU to rename the LETC “Sherman Hall” to honor Gen. William ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Todd Groce offers a historical reflection of Sherman's March to the Sea and compares it with later military actions. Historian Todd Groce ...

In the months before the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, the Wehrmacht’s propagandists warned those living under German occupation that America’s armies would not be as forgiving. In the ...