COLUMBUS, Ohio — Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined the ...

Weapons from the battlefield, books inscribed by hand and a family Bible are among the items belonging to William T. Sherman, the Civil War general known for the phrase “war is hell,” that are up for ...

(CNN) — At first, it was the rare binding that caught the eye of Danielle Linn, a senior book specialist with Fleischer’s Auctions. While cataloging items once owned by the Union Army General, William ...

Some 500 pieces of American history unseen even by scholars are coming to light through an auction taking place through Fleischer’s Auctions of Columbus. The two-day auction, “Civil War & African ...

Fleischer had boxed up the memoir and other items, including Sherman’s personal sword and military trunk, his family Bible and other mementos, driving them from a Sherman descendant’s home in western ...

PINEVILLE, La. (KALB) - Before the Union declared victory over the Confederate states in the Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman became a leader in Louisiana’s higher education system. After ...

Other artifacts that were the subject of intense online bidding include Sherman’s annotated copy of Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs, his childhood algebra book and a family Bible. By Christine Hauser ...