Nov. 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1791, Georgetown University, in what is now Washington, D.C., opened as the first Roman Catholic college in the United States. In 1864, Union General ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bust of Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman can be seen between the vaults at Grant's Tomb in New York City. On November 15, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Todd Groce offers a historical reflection of Sherman's March to the Sea and compares it with later military actions. Historian Todd Groce ...

Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...

During the Civil War, Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and his troops arrived in Savannah, Georgia, days before Christmas in 1864. The city was their final stop on Sherman's March to the Sea, ...

"Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the Jubilee. Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free, So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, While we were marching through Georgia." On November 14, 1864, the ...

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was a surprising instrument of emancipation. Although raised in Ohio and firmly wedded to the Union cause when the nation erupted into civil war, he was a racist who ...

Just over 160 years ago on Feb. 17, 1865, Union troops ransacked and destroyed much of Columbia, South Carolina.