Topic: Georgia
It lies on the Savannah River (there bridged to North Augusta, South Carolina), on the fall line where the Piedmont Plateau meets the Coastal Plain. The ensuing settlement was named for Princess Augusta, mother of England's George III.. During the American Revolution, ...
General Sherman's march through Georgia in 1864 certainly hastened the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War. In a military sense Sherman's strategy of destruction was highly astute because it hastened the end of the bloodiest war in American history , ...
Wakulla County, Florida lies along the Gulf Coast of the Florida panhandle, just south of the state Capitol of Tallahassee. Andrew Jackson invaded the area and gained control of the fort in 1818, but it was taken over once again by the ...
On an unknown date in the midst of a sweltering Georgia summer in 1864, George W. Norton, a soldier with the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry, took a moment out of his day to write to his wife. Letters written by soldiers in Sherman's ...
The beginning phase of William Tecumseh Sherman?s march through Georgia to the sea and from there up through the Carolinas is best described in the general?s own words: ? So in May of 1864 as Grant and Lee struggled in the Virginia, ...
During most of the Civil War Longstreet commanded troops in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, rising to the rank of lieutenant general. He was engaged in most of the major battles of the war, including both battles of Bull Run, ...
Calif. headstone of ex-Union Army soldier corrected after decades marked as ConfederateThe headstone of a former slave and Union soldier no longer identifies him as a member of the Confederate army, after his family failed to notice the error for years.More than ...
Georgia's history spans the last three centuries, highlighting the determination of coastal colonists who created this beautiful state, the inspiration that sparked the Civil Rights Movement and the spirit that brought Georgia the 1996 Olympic Games. Before the state capital moved to ...
Summer days are just right for cooling down and enjoying family and friends at one of these idyllic Southern lake escapes.. Ferris Bueller couldn't pack more fun in a day than you can enjoy here at the luxurious state resort set in ...
the South, region, southeastern United States, generally though not exclusively considered to be south of the Mason and Dixon Line, the Ohio River, and the 36?30 parallel. Southern separatism in defense of slavery culminated in 1860-61, when 11 Southern states (South Carolina, ...
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