May 19, 2015
Sherman's March, May 19, 1865: "And thus was completed the great circuit ..."
Sherman's March, May 19, 1865: "And thus was completed the great circuit ..." #GreatMarch150
Recording the march of 1st Division, Twentieth Corps for May 19, 1865, Major-General Alpheus Williams wrote:
May 19, after a march of fourteen miles, the division pitched tents upon the high ground above Holmes’ Creek, near Cloud’s Mills, within two miles of Alexandria.
Today this area is part of a stand of townhouses named “Cameron Station” and Brenman’s Park. (And as I write this, realization…
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