From the bombing of Fort Pulaski in 1862 to the capture of Confederate president Jefferson Davis in 1865, Georgia played a significant role in the Civil War (1861-65). Sherman occupied the city on December 20 and telegraphed President Abraham Lincoln, presenting the city as a Christmas present. Mills B. The Civil War in Savannah. Hardee was forced to abandon Savannah to the Federals. Sherman covered almost 300 miles, devastated Georgia, and captured Savannah. Lane, Savannah Revisited: History and Architecture, 5th ed. https://gosouthsavannah.com/things-to-do/tours/civil-war-tours.html https://georgiahistory.com/.../nineteenth-century/civil-war-and-reconstruction https://www.savannah.com/civil-war-savannah-the-ghosts-of-history Commissioned in honor of Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert, the late leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the father of the As part of that effort, a British army under Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell captured the city of The fall of Atlanta in 1864 was pivotal in determining the war's outcome; this important Union victory assured U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's reelection and ultimately led to Confederate defeat. The 1860 Annual Report listed the Department’s expenses for that year at $39,113.94; a police private in 1860 was paid $500 per year. The building was used as a Union hospital for wounded soldiers until the end of the Savannah’s Guard and Watch grew steadily in the years prior to the Civil War. Jim Jordan, The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017). When the war ended, Savannah was nearly bankrupt; today it is a thriving port city and tourist center. The Civil War Memorial in Savannah, Georgia is a monument honoring soldiers who died during the American Civil War.Located in Forsyth Park, it consists of a 48 foot (15 m) tall shaft topped with a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier.Two additional statues honoring notable Confederate army officers surround the monument, which is protected by a fence. Jacqueline Jones, Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War (New York: Knopf, 2008). Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the city’s evolution from the pivotal period immediately after the Civil War to the present. Records from 1852 list its strength as 86 men under the command of Captain of Police Francis M. Stone.