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Sherman's March to the Sea (15 November to 21 December 1864) was a significant military campaign in the American Civil War (1861-1865). Hoping to cripple the Confederacy's ability to make war, as...

The Atlanta Campaign (7 May to 2 September 1864) was a major military campaign in the western theater of the American Civil War (1861-1865). It saw a large Union force under Major...

Sherman's March to the Sea in 1864, part of the American Civil War, original illustration by Felix Octavius Carr Darley and engraved by Alexander Hay Ritchie, c. 1868. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

In Atlanta, Georgia, Union soldiers under William Tecumseh Sherman destroy a railroad during the American Civil War, photograph by George N. Barnard, 1864. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The Battle of Bentonville (19-21 March 1865) was among the last major battles of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Having cut swathes of destruction first through Georgia...

A photograph showing US-made Sherman tanks of the British Eight Army during the Second Battle of El Alamein (Oct-Nov 1942) in the Western Desert Campaigns (June 1940 to January 1943) in North Africa. (Imperial War Museums...

Portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1860-1865. Resigning his short-lived position of superintendent at the Louisiana Military Academy, the Ohio-born William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891...

The Franklin-Nashville Campaign (September-December 1864) was the last major military operation in the western theater of the American Civil War (1861-1865). After the Southern stronghold...

Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman and his staff officers, photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1865. Standing, left to right: Oliver O. Howard, William B. Hazen, Jefferson C. Davis, and Joseph A. Mower. Sitting...

The Honorable Roger Sherman Baldwin (1793-1863), oil on canvas portrait by Rufus Wright, 1845. Baldwin was the attorney for the 53 Africans who took the ship La Amistad in 1839 and challenged the US...