The general ... beloved Civil War fictional epic "Gone With the Wind." He then led his troops on a conquest of Georgia all the way to Savannah. It's gone down in history as Gen. Sherman's infamous ...

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

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

It was one of the great conundrums of the Civil War that so many of the Union generals who brought the Confederacy to its military knees had, like Sherman, no particular enthusiasm for ending slavery.

but when the Civil War broke out, he joined the U.S. Army as a colonel. Sherman fought at the First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, in which Union troops were beaten badly by the Confederate Army.

Although raised in Ohio and firmly wedded to the Union cause when the nation erupted into civil war ... of Sherman’s epic March to the Sea and its legacy, the hard-fighting general brought ...

As wartime leader of the Union's Women Nurses, Dorothea Dix set a quiet example of indomitable efficiency, impressing even General Sherman. Her standards were so high that many volunteers were ...