Some residents' homes and businesses and schools were burned ... What happened next: Sherman began his famous March to the Sea, a scorched-earth campaign from Atlanta to Savannah.

Howell Raines, a former executive editor of the New York Times, is the author of “Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta — and Then Got Written Out of ...

William Tecumseh Sherman, all of them perched on top of Dix Hill fresh from burning Atlanta, torching Columbia ... explains how 2,000 Union soldiers nearly burned Raleigh to the ground as ...

Yesterday, Gen. SHERMAN moved his headquarters to follow the army which very suddenly broke camp in the neighborhood of Atlanta, and left, some by cars, and a corps or two in marching order ...