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Turning point · The American Civil War, 1861–1865
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.
This is one scene of Chapter 9 — The Ballot and the March in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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