Here is historian Bennett Parten at Zocalo Public Square: Americans get Sherman’s March all wrong. Ask anyone who’s seen Gone with the Wind, and they’ll tell you that U.S. General William T. Sherman’s roughly 250-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah marked […]
William Tecumseh Sherman
What Liz Cheney forgot to mention on Tuesday night about U.S. Grant and the end of the Civil War
On Tuesday night, Liz Cheney referenced General Ulysses S. Grant’s leadership of the Union army in 1864: In May of 1864, after years of war, and a string of reluctant Union generals, Ulysses S. Grant met General Lee’s forces at […]