Historical Magazine
Scott Harman, Dawson Arrington
Battle of Anteitam
The Army of the Potomac, under the command of George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee’s forces near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862. This assault and the vicious Confederate counter attacks.
Later, towards the center of the battlefield.
Dawson Arrington
Battle of Gettysburg
Scott Harman
Battle of Chikamagua
Scott Harman
Emancipation Proclamation
Dawson Arrington
Union Blockade
Scott Harman
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
Dawson Arrington
Sherman's March to the Sea
From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. Sherman’s soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they stole food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back. The Yankees were “not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people,” Sherman explained; as a result, they needed to “make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.”
Dawson Arrington/Scott Harman
Andersonville
Dawson Arrington/Scott Harman