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Photos/text courtesy of Richard
Edling, Philadelphia, PA For any use of these photos contact Webmaster |
Links: 1. Pooler History - City of Pooler 2. Pooler, Georgia - Wikipedia 3. Georgia's Historic Civil War Heritage and Sites |
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(June 2008) Pooler, Georgia. During the Civil War, Pooler was a railway stop called Pooler's Station, the last stop before Savannah on the Central of Georgia Railroad. In December of 1864, it was a meeting place for Union officers led by William Tecumseh Sherman, who negotiated with Savannah authorities for the strategic port city's peaceful surrender |
(June 2008) Route 80 east thru Pooler, GA. Confederates angered Sherman by burying mines in the road |
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(June 2008) Sherman was exposed to Confederate artillery fire that decapitated a passing slave in the area where U.S. 80 crosses the railroad |
(June 2008) Sherman and the Seventeenth Corps approached Savannah along the Louisville Road |
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(June 2008) Old Louisville Road |
