Why it matters: The strategic destruction of railroad tracks and burning of thousands ... earth campaign from Atlanta to Savannah. The general, who famously declared "War is hell," spared the ...

Gen. William T. Sherman, mythic figure in American history, was born in Lancaster, Ohio in 1820. His birthplace, the Sherman ...

Pvt. Lucien Weakley’s weathered headstone stands beneath a towering magnolia tree that is surrounded by the graves of thousands of other Confederate soldiers in Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery.