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

Thousands of newly freed slaves followed the Union Army’s “March to the Sea” in the hopes of protection as they left bondage ...

Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.

Also on this date: In 1865, Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of land in the South would be divided into 40-acre lots and given to former slaves. (The order ...

On Jan. 16, 1991, in a televised address to the nation, U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced the start of Operation Desert Storm, an Allied combat operation to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

“Palestinians and their supporters abroad,” the Sun’s Novi Zhukovsky reported on Friday, “have gone from accusing Israel of ...

Pershing in World War I and by General George Marshall in World War II. Near by was William Tecumseh Sherman’s ornate library table, and on it a model of the Oozlefinch bird, a frog-eyed ...

Confederate general John Bell Hood would be evacuating his forces at once, leaving William Tecumseh Sherman’s Union Army free to take the city. The next day, local officials surrendered the city ...

The peaceful silkworm farmer turned out to be a gifted and ruthless officer, and earned comparisons to his contemporary, American Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. Zuo drove the Taiping ...