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General Sherman sent a telegram to President Abraham Lincoln after arriving in Savannah, Georgia. This telegram presented Lincoln with the town of Savannah as a Christmas gift from General Sherman.

Here is a photograph of two black, female students being escorted by an unmarked police car on their first day of school at Joseph E. Brown High School in Atlanta, GA on August 30, 1961.

This letter was sent by Horace Park, Union Army chaplain and director of the Freedmen’s Colony on Roanoke Island, to Mack, the rest of the name does not show up. But we can determine that Mack is someone else in the Union Army, because Park tells…

The Grand Trunk Railroad provides its customers with entertainment and sight-seeing opportunities.

Seen here is a group of students at the Booker T. Washington High School in the 1950s. The results of a writing contest is being announced by one of the teachers outside of the school building.

This photograph shows Henry McNeal Turner High School in Atlanta, GA in 2015. Though it is not open during this time, at its height, it was the most prestigious black high school in the city.

A woman from the north traveled through the south and is recounting her journey through Georgia in a letter to her father.

This item is a group of letters written by Charles James Martin, a Confederate soldier and member of the 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment. Martin writes these letters to his family during the Atlanta Campaign. He discusses his health and the war…

Wooden subway cars designed by the BRT: Inspection tour of City Hall stations