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U.S. Civil War History
U.S. Civil War History
1864 - The engagement at Waynesboro ended. Union General Judson Kilpatrick and Confederate General Joseph Wheeler clashed for the final time after eight days. The battle allowed Union General Sherman to march to Savannah, Georgia on his famous "March to the Sea."
| "The dead of the battle-field come up to us very rarely, even in dreams. We see the list in the morning paper at breakfast, but dismiss its recollection with the coffee. Mr. Matthew Brady has done something to bring us the terrible reality and earnestness of the war. If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our door-yards and along our streets, he has done something very like it." - The New York Times |
