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 ...
Dec. 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1620, the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, Mass., following a 63-day voyage from England aboard the Mayflower. In 1864, Union Gen. William T. Sherman completed ...
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, ...
STARKVILLE — A new edition of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s memoirs has been annotated by some of the nation’s leading Civil War scholars at Mississippi State University—an effort marking 150 years ...