{"id":8137,"date":"2018-12-09T02:50:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T02:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savannahdreamvacations.com\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2022-05-26T16:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T16:03:41","slug":"president-lincolns-christmas-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savannahdreamvacations.com\/president-lincolns-christmas-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"President Lincoln&#8217;s Christmas Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8137\" class=\"elementor elementor-8137\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-171efb9f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"171efb9f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6dc21cfa\" data-id=\"6dc21cfa\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0f9c1f4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0f9c1f4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">President Lincoln\u2019s Christmas Gift<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7511bc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b7511bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was on December 22, 1864, that Abraham Lincoln received a gift from Union General William T. Sherman.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">For nearly six weeks, nothing was heard from Sherman during his famous \u201cMarch to the Sea,\u201d <br \/>a military campaign to frighten Georgia\u2019s people and convince them to abandon the Confederate cause.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sherman finally sent a telegram to Lincoln to inform him of the army\u2019s success, reading in part, <br \/>\u201cI beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah with 150 heavy guns <br \/>and plenty of ammunition and also about 25,000 bales of cotton.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8138\" src=\"https:\/\/savannahdreamvacations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lincoln-telegram.jpg\" alt=\"President Lincoln's Christmas Gift | Savannah History | Savannah Dream Vacations\" width=\"900\" height=\"1411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/savannahdreamvacations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lincoln-telegram.jpg 900w, https:\/\/savannahdreamvacations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lincoln-telegram-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/savannahdreamvacations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lincoln-telegram-768x1204.jpg 768w, https:\/\/savannahdreamvacations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lincoln-telegram-653x1024.jpg 653w, https:\/\/savannahdreamvacations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lincoln-telegram-405x635.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Telegram from General William Sherman to President Abraham Lincoln announcing the surrender of Savannah, Georgia, <br \/>as a Christmas present to the President, 12\/22\/1864.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.archives.gov\/id\/301637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Archives Identifier: 301637<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was on December 22, 1864, that Abraham Lincoln received a gift from Union General William T. 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