RICHMOND HILL, Ga. - As Fort McAllister fell to the Union Army of Gen. William T. Sherman days before Christmas in 1864, one of his artillery officers seized the Confederate flag of a vanquished company of Georgia riflemen...

...town made it a part of the city's defense fortification.Its brick wall was modified in anticipation of Gen. William T. Sherman's attack. There are still signs along the wall where bricks were removed for cannons.It also became a resting...

...bottom for nearly 150 years.Confederate troops scuttled the ironclad CSS Georgia to prevent its capture by Gen. William T. Sherman when his Union troops took Savannah in December 1864. It's been on the river bottom ever since.Now, the Civil...

...crossed by Union troops in 1864 as they launched a key skirmish in the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during Gen. William T. Sherman's march to the sea."We have to get the money," said amateur historian Brad Quinlin, a regular visitor to...

...skirmish it depicts happened within the heart of town. While the Feb. 11 fight is just a footnote in Union Gen. William T. Sherman's march to Columbia, it was also one in a string of battles between Union Gen. Judson "Kill-Cavalry" Kilpatrick...

...remarried, her wedding to a U.S. Supreme Court justice became the first wedding in the White House.? Gen. William T. Sherman was stationed at the Augusta Arsenal before the Civil War but there is no evidence that he spared Augusta on his...

...war should be called the War for Southern Independence instead of the usual title "the Civil War." What Gen. William T. Sherman did when he marched through Georgia and South Carolina was not civil ? it was just plain criminal. If our soldiers...

...As such, Augustans incorporated the cemetery's brick wall into its perimeter defenses in anticipation of Gen. William T. Sherman's attack. There are still visible signs along the wall where the bricks were removed for cannon placements...

...lived in company-constructed brick-row houses.Ultimately, Augusta's greatest threat would come from Gen. William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" from Atlanta, but even that proved a false alarm. Augusta emerged from the Civil War...

...Extensive research in the Columbia archives turned up names, along with an old family will. His grandfather saw Gen. William T. Sherman march through Barnwell, S.C."They threatened to shoot his dog," Creech said.Mae S. Gilmer's interest...