How sweet is the light, what a delight for the eyes to behold the sun! Even if a man lives many years, let him enjoy himself in all of them, remembering how many the days of darkness are going to be. The only future is nothingness!
Ecclesiastes 11:7-8


Saturday December 22, 2012

Sherman SmallOn this date in 1864, during the Civil War, my namesake, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman sent a message from Georgia to President Abraham Lincoln saying, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah."

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