Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of "Sherman's March to the Sea" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
Ball’s Ferry, Buckhead Creek, Charleston and Savannah Railroad, Fort McAllister, General Sherman, Georgia, Griswoldville, Honey Hill, march, Savannah, Waynesboro.
It is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event in order to narrow your results. To narrow your results for this topic, search between 1864-1866.

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"General Sherman's Campaign"
The Evening Telegraph (Philadelphia, PA), December 10, 1864, Fourth Edition, Page 3, Image 3, col. 1.
"Letter From General Wade Hampton"
Keowee Courier (Pickens Court House, SC), April 7, 1866, Image 1, col. 1.
"Capture of Georgia's Capital"
The National Tribune (Washington, DC), April 23, 1903, Page 2, Image 2, col. 1.
"Campaigning with Sherman: The Famous March from Atlanta to the Sea"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), October 27, 1907, Page 13, Image 37, col. 2.
"Federal Designs and Our Policy. & A Successful Cavalry Expedition"
Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, TN), June 27, 1864, Image 1, col. 1.
"From Sherman"
Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling, WV), December 5, 1864, Image 4, col. 6.
"From Louisville to the Sea: A Soldier's Diary of the Civil War"
The National Tribune (Washington, DC), March 20, 1902, Page 3, Image 3, col. 1.
"War Chronicle, Being a Record of Battles, Sieges, Skirmishes"
The Soldiers' Journal (Rendevous of Distribution, VA), February 1, 1865, Image 6, col. 1.
"Latest News from the Enemy"
The Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA), March 16, 1865, Image 1, col. 2.
"The Battle of Waynesboro"
Cleveland Morning Leader (Cleveland, OH), March 24, 1865, Image 1, col. 2.
"Latest Southern News"
The Evening Telegraph (Philadelphia, PA), December 5, 1864, Fourth Edition, Image 1, col. 3.
"Sherman's Guns Heard"
Cleveland Morning Leader (Cleveland, OH), December 16, 1864, Image 1, col. 6.
"The Battle of Honey Hill"
Edgefield Advertiser (Edgefield, SC), December 14, 1864, Image 1, col. 1.
"Sherman's Georgia Campaign!"
American Citizen (Butler, PA), June 28, 1865, Image 1, col. 5.
"Sherman's March Through the Carolina Swamps Left a Trail of Ruins"
New-York tribune (New York, NY), January 7, 1912, Page 2, Image 18, col. 1.

Sherman's March to the Sea: Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America