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Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March & The Story of America's Largest Emancipation

One Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park,
Harrisburg, PA 17103
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The National Civil War Museum welcomes Dr. Bennett Parten for a free Civil War book talk on Monday, January 27, 2025, from 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm. A groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea—the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy—told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who fled to the Union lines and transformed Sherman’s march into the biggest liberation event in American history. In the fall of 1864, Gen. William T. Sherman led his army through Atlanta, Georgia, burning buildings of military significance—and ultimately most of the city—along the way.

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