Savannah Then and Now
Today is the anniversary, 160 years ago, of William T. Sherman’s famous Christmas gift to President Lincoln:
SAVANNAH, GA., December 22, 1864
(Via Fort Monroe 6.45 p.m. 25th)His Excellency President LINCOLN:
I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton.
W.T. Sherman,
Major General.
Have YOU ever been to Savannah? If so, what special memory do you have from the city? What Civil War-related stuff did you do?
Loved the checkerboard-like squares scattered about the old city. Stopped outside the old Sorrel-Weed House that was in the process of being rehabilitated. Moxley Sorrell was of course Longstreet’s Chief of Staff. The docent was an African American, which I felt both recognized the role of slave labor in it’s- and much of old Savannah’s -construction- as well as how far we’ve come as a society.
We visited the home that General Sherman used as his headquarters in Savannah.