On December 22, 1864, General William T. Sherman wired President Abraham Lincoln, “I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah.”
Grades
4 - 11
Subjects
Social Studies, U.S. History
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U.S. General William T. Sherman's 1864 "March to the Sea" was a campaign through the Confederate state of Georgia, starting in Atlanta and ending about a month later in the port city of Savannah, above. (The "sea," of course, was the Atlantic Ocean.)
Photograph courtesy Library of Congress
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activities designed to achieve a social, political, or military goal.
military unit that serves on horseback.
large settlement with a high population density.
sharing of information and ideas.
to take or seize by some authority.
to ruin or make useless.
terrible and damaging event.
person who is owned by another person or group of people.
to accompany or guide.
confrontational or unfriendly.
animals raised for sale and profit.
to coordinate and give structure to.
to formally offer or submit.
road constructed with metal tracks on which trains travel.
somewhat uncontrolled, violent behavior.
dependable or consistent.
a military strategy which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through or withdrawing from an area.
to guarantee, or make safe and certain.
amount of a product that is available to consumers.
system of communication involving devices connected through electrical wires.
a soldier.
having to do with states supporting the United States (north) during the U.S. Civil War.
large-scale armed conflict.