The Kennesaw Line: Hell Breaks Loose in Georgia
Sam Watkins The focus of General Thomas’s attack was the angle in the Confederate line manned by troops of Gen. Frank Cheatham’s Tennessee Division. Thomas intended to break the line and push on toward...
View ArticleA March Made in Georgia: Sherman’s Famous March to the Sea
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Derek Maxfield. One hundred-fifty years ago this fall, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman led an army of sixty-thousand men on a militarily-unorthodox...
View ArticlePreview of Trouble to Come: Secretary of War Edwin Stanton Visits Sherman in...
Despite his Brother Sen. John Sherman’s assurance that Sec. of War Edwin Stanton was “your fast friend, and was when you had fewer,” Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was unsettled by Stanton’s unannounced...
View ArticleThe Battle of Bentonville: March 19, 1865
Looking south atop the Cole plateau toward the Goldsboro Road. 150 years ago, on the morning of March 19, 1865, the Battle of Bentonville opened with Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton’s cavalry delaying the...
View ArticleTo Crush One Corps of Sherman’s Army: Henry Slocum’s Actions at Bentonville
Maj. Gen. Henry Slocum. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Major General Henry W. Slocum could hardly believe his ears. Standing before him was an emaciated figure, dressed in enemy gray. The man, a...
View ArticleC’mon, Cump!
In his recent, admiring biography of William Tecumseh Sherman, Brian Holden Reid terms him a “dazzling literary stylist.” Well, watch out for that razzle-dazzle, at least in Sherman’s Memoirs (1875). I...
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