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What did William Tecumseh Sherman give Abraham Lincoln as a Christmas gift after taking Savannah?
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William Tecumseh Sherman
General William T. Sherman in uniform and wearing a mourning ribbon for President Lincoln, photograph by Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, 1865.
After capturing the city of Savannah on December 21, 1864, at the conclusion of his March to the Sea, William Tecumseh Sherman sent a telegram to President Abraham Lincoln offering the city as a Christmas gift.12
In his message, Sherman wrote: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton."1