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In the afternoon and the following night, Confederate forces evacuated Savannah, Georgia and its fortifications as General Sherman's Union forces closed in. Confederate General William J. Hardee and his 15,000 garrison escaped after burning installations and fortifications, including the naval yard in the city. Triumphant Union troops occupied the city on the afternoon of December 21, 1864, ending Sherman's "March to the Sea." (by John Osborne)
Source Citation
Charles P. Roland, An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002), 234.
Chronicles of the Great Rebellion Against the United States of America ... (Philadelphia, A. Winch, 1867), 91.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Battles/Soldiers
