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What city was offered to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift from Sherman?
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What city was offered to Lincoln as a Christmas gift from Sherman?
Savannah
Which civil war commander announced the city of Savannah as a Christmas present to the President and the country?
It was General William T. Sherman who offered the city of Savannah (Georgia) to President Lincoln as a Christmas present. With the city having fallen to the Union troops commanded by Sherman, he sent a telegraph message to the president on December 22, 1864, announcing the "gift".
When did general sherman lead the march to the sea?
Starting mid-November 1864, liberating Savannah in Christmas week. (He jokingly offered the city to Lincoln as a Christmas present.)
What was sherman's Christmas present to Lincoln?
The City of Savannah - in other words, the triumphant end of the March to the Sea. Sherman was celebrating his first chance to send signals to Washington, when he linked up with the US Navy. (Across Georgia, the wires had been cut.) As it was Christmas week, he offered the city to Lincoln as a joke-present.
What did sherman mean when he presented the city Savannah to loncoln?
This was a humorous reaction to the end of the March to the Sea, when Sherman was able to contact Grant and Lincoln for the first time in six weeks (because the wires had been cut), and he discoveed on December 24th that the Confederates had fled from Savannah, so there wouldn't be a destructive battle in that beautiful city. To celebrate the re-occupation of Savannah, he jokingly offered it to Lincoln as a Christmas present.
When the Civil War began President Lincoln offered command of the Union armies to?
i dont no
Who offered a pardon for all illegal acts during rebellion after the civil war?
president abe lincoln
When the civil war began' president Lincoln offered command of the union armies to?
Robert E. Lee
Where was William shermans big march?
Right across Georgia, from Atlanta to Savannah. Although it was a triumphant success, shortening the war by months at almost nil casualties, Sherman was privately nervous at the start, and spent much effort in deception tactics to conceal his route from the few Confederates in his path. It was also worrying for Lincoln, as the telegraph wires had been cut, and Sherman was incommunicado for five weeks. At Savannah, Sherman was able to establish contact with the US Navy and send signals to Lincoln. As it was December, one of the first ones jokingly offered him the city of Savannah as a Christmas present.
Was William T Sherman offered a commission in the Confederate army?
William T. Sherman was a West Point graduate and in charge of a military college in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the start of the war. Confederate President Jefferson Davis offered Sherman a commission in the Southern army. Both men were West Point graduates. Also, generals from both sides had joined the opposition, so there was a precedent for this. Sherman declined the offer.
Who offered the great compromised?
Roger Sherman
What was Savannah's role in the civil war?
It was a blockade-runner's port - eventually relieved by Sherman on December 24th 1864, and offered by him as a Christmas present to Lincoln in a humorous telegram. Everyone expected a battle, but the small Confederate force escaped across the river into South Carolina, and the beautiful city survives in its original glory to this day.
