he was the brother of william tecumseh sherman. he is the fellow that crafted the sherman antitrust act. he is a name you have known although you probably couldn't put the name to the face. there he is. william wyndham -- windom. he was secretary of treasurer under harrison. he is long forgotten as well. the last one here is a gentleman , daniel manning. he appears on a $20 silver certificate. here is the bank note that had gallatin on it. this is an external narrowly denomination 41862. he looks like he left out his dentures. -- this is an extremely high denomination for 1862. lincoln, chase scott feesenden ssenden, spinner, and clark. fessenden was the successor to chase as secretary of the treasury. here is an interesting cartoon that came from the harper's weekly in 1865. it was one month before lincoln was assassinated. you hear a lot today about inflation and reckless printing of banknotes. we had the same problem then. fessenden is turning a crank to produce greenbacks. these are the greediest fellas i ever saw. i can't satis

. >> on december 20 1, 1864, union forces under general william tecumseh sherman captured savannah completing the march to , the sea campaign that started in atlanta five weeks earlier. todd gross of the georgia historical society talks about the significance of the campaign and how it has been remembered. this ceremony in savannah is about 20 minutes and includes the unveiling of a historical marker. >> good afternoon. i'm bob jepsen, chairman of the georgia historical society and i'd like to welcome you all to madison square on this warm and balmy day. i'm taking a big risk, we believe that the bells are finished for awhile, so i hope you can hear me. part of our mission at the georgia historical society is the education of the history of the great state of georgia, and we're here today to dedicate a marker that represents an event, people, and a time in our history. and to get on with the program i'd like to introduce the president of the historical society, dr. todd gross. todd? >> thank you, bob. thank you, sir. thank you. well, thank you, bob. and good afternoon, everyone. let me add my

it is from chattanooga not following spring that william tecumseh sherman will take a combined eu nor me an advance southwards from chattanooga towards atlanta -- a combined union army and advanced southwards from chattanooga towards atlanta, the industrial heartland, disrupt and destroy most of it. bringing the war to a close in spring 1865. observers and participants at the time believed that union success here at chattanooga was a signal of ultimate union success in the war. some have said that this was the death knell of the confederacy. chattanooga remained in union hands from their seizure of it in this campaign for chattanooga and 1863 onto the end of the war . in part because it was a union base and garrison town in the last year and a half of the war, it allow a number of individuals from the north to come to chattanooga and began exploiting the resources that are in the greater chattanooga region. even before the war. is over chattanooga's industrial segment of its economy that was beginning to grow just before the war gets reinvigorated in the closing months of the war. the

earlier in the month, general william tecumseh sherman had issued field order #15, which promised to confiscate lands and redistribute them to the newly-free former slaves. this was the origins of the "40 acres and a mule" idea. the world was watching a new kind of warfare unfold in the american south. massive citizen armies pulled from civilian populations of two democratic societies, nearly 3 million men in arms. 10% of the combined population. nobody told them about the democratic peace theory, which is so popular in washington circles these days. sherman's march and the burning of columbia is as much about young men in war, wreaking vengeance upon helpless civilians, but there was also strategic purpose to the destruction. they aimed at destroying the capacity of the south to wage war. to destroy railroads and factories, to emancipate and arm slaves. the march was also designed to demoralize the south, the civilian population in particular, and to demonstrate to the southern people but also to european powers -- here is my international history -- that the confederacy could no lo