From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
<span> Center of learning and trade</span>
Florence is remembered as the genesis of renaissance and wealth and wealth in cities uniqueness and architecture. During the middle ages, the city was wealthy of natural resources i.e. Marble quarries where building and sculptures were made.
During this period great thinkers, philosophers, artists, architects and political figures like Leonardo da Vinci, Donantello, Ghiberti.
