American Civil War · TURNING POINT ·
Capture of Savannah (1864)
On the American Civil War map as “Savannah”
21 Dec 1864 — Sherman completes the March to the Sea and wires Lincoln: “I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.” Some 19,000 freedpeople have followed his columns out of slavery.
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- Turning point
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- 1864 election and March to the Sea (chapter 10 of American Civil War)
- Atlas
- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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