March Slideshow
Click any image below to begin a slide show of Sherman’s March to the Sea:
- Leaving Atlanta Sherman and the XIV Corps passed Stone Mountain as they marched east toward Savannah
- 150 year old evidence of Sherman’s March to the Sea. Chimney and hearth in Bostwick, Ga -2014
- The Casulon Plantation
- Riddleville, Georgia 2014
- The old Savannah Road, Riddleville, Georgia 2014
- The Casulon Plantation in Good Hope, Ga was spared during the passing of Sherman’s armies only to be destroyed by fire in 2003.
- Reenactors within the earthen walls of Fort McAllister, Richmond Hill, Georgia 2014
- The landside approach to Fort McAllister with moat and sharpened stakes was made more lethal by the placement of land mines by the Confederates
- The Ogeechee River at Fort McAllister in Richmond Hill, Ga. Sherman’s capture of the Rebel held fort would lead to his occupation of Savannah in 1864.
- This elevated road between old rice paddies was used by Union troops in the brief Battle of Shaw’s Dam in 1864. The “Union Causeway” is now part of a nature trail on the grounds of the Savannah Christian Preparatory School in Savannah, Ga
- Confederate sentry stands at the footbridge to Fort McAllister
- Track repairs near Briswoldville, Ga
- Spanish moss covered Live Oak trees at Savannah Wildlife Refuge 2014
- Confederates defend Fort McAllister during the 150th anniversary of the Battle for Savannah
- Ebenezer Creek, Springfield, Georgia 2014
- Old bridge over the Oconee River at Milledgeville destroyed by Sherman’s troops
- Slave cabin with empty moonshine bottles, Sylvania, Ga 2014
- Union troops on the march in Richmond Hill, Georgia 2014
- Slave cabins in Ellabell, Ga 2014
- Sandersville, Georgia 2014
- Riddleville, Georgia 2014
- Forsythe Park, Savannah, Ga
- Savannah Railroad Museum 2014
- Monticello, Georgia 2014
- The Ogeechee River looking east towards the sea
- The old State Capitol building in Milledgeville was the scene of a mock gathering of the Georgia Legislature by Sherman’s troops in 1864
- Savannah, Georgia 2014
- Reenactots storm Fort McAllister
- Union reenactors skirmish around Fort McAllister 2014
- Pine forest in Ogeechee, Georgia 2014
- Reenactors lounge in the Georgia woods
- The river-face of Fort McAllister
- Reenactors skirmish outside Fort McAllister
- Savannah Wildlife Refuge
- Union reenactors at Fort McAllister
- Union reenactor takes cover at Fort McAllister
- The marsh at Wormsloe Plantation, Ga
- Landslide approach to Fort Pulaski
- Confederate reenact stands guard at Fort McAllister, Richmond HIll, Georgia 2014
- Typical road Sherman’s troops would have encountered on their march to Savannah. Cooperville, Ga 2014
- Confederates stand guard at Fort McAllister 2914
- The sea from Tybee Island, Georgia 2014
- Confederate reenactor defends Fort McAllister
- Ebenezer Creek, Springfield, Ga
- Reenactors in the woods of Georgia 2014
- Reenactor stands sentry at Fort McAllister looking to the opposite bank of the Ogeechee River where the Union Navy anchored their ironclads to bombard the in 1863
- Interior of Fort Pulaski, Savannah, Georgia 2014
- Savannah Wildlife Refuge
- Old Grist Mill in Sylvania, Ga
- Interior of Fort Jackson
- Cotton fields in Ogeechee, Ga 2014
- Box cars at Savannah Railroad Museum
- Old warehouses near the Savannah River 2014
- Confederate Gen. Joseph Wheeler’s troops used the pews from Buckhead Church to ford a nearby creek during an action with Federal soldiers during Sherman’s march through Millen, Georgia
- The Ogeechee River at Kings Bridge, Richmond Hill, Ga
- Live Oak drive at the Wormsloe Plantation
- Fort Jackson on the Savannah River
- The remains of Manchester Mills on Sweetwater Creek burned by Union troops in 1864
- American flag over the marsh on Tybee Island, Ga 2014
- The pock-marked exterior of Fort Pulaski. Situated on the Savannah River the fort was bombarded and captured by Union troops in 1862
- Guns at Fort Jackson on the Savannah River 2014
- Rice fields gone wild In Savannah Georgia
- This Live Oak witnbessed the events at Fort McAllister in 1864
- Front porch of the Brown House in Sandersville, Ga
- The Battlefield at Griswoldville, Georgia 2014
- The drawing room at the Green-Meldrim House Sherman’s HQ in Savannah in 1864
- Buckhead Church in Millen, Ga 2014
- The monument of Silence looks over the graves of Georgian Confederates at Laurel Grove Cemetery
- Spanish moss covered Live Oak Trees at Savannah Wildlife Refuge