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Photos/text courtesy of Richard
Edling, Philadelphia, PA and Mike Stroud, Bluffton, SC 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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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 |
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Route 80 east thru Pooler, GA. Confederates angered
Sherman by burying mines in the road |
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Sherman was exposed to Confederate artillery fire
that decapitated a passing slave in the area where U.S. 80 crosses the
railroad |
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Sherman and the Seventeenth Corps approached Savannah
along the Louisville Road |
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Old Louisville Road |
(2009)
Enlarge Georgia
Historical Commission 1958 marker
Mike Stroud photo |
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Enlarge Caboose marks old
RR line thru Pooler
Mike Stroud photo |
