Dec. 22nd, General Sherman entered Savannah and established his headquarters at the Pulaski House. While working out the details here, an English merchant, Charles Green, offered the General his home as his Headquarters. General Sherman accepted and the Headquarters was moved to the Green House. It was here that Sherman penned his famous telegram to President Lincoln. It read as follows:
“I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.”
General Sherman established his headquarters here at the Greene Mansion and stayed in residence here until the moved the Union Army into South Carolina in February of 1865.The Juliette Gordon Low House. The family here had relatives on both sides of the and they were a well know family in Savannah. General Sherman and General O.O. Howard both visited the family. Juliette was a small child and local legend says that she was sitting on the knee of General Howard as he explained that he had lost his arm in battle. Juliette replied in a very innocent way, “Oh, I bet that was may Papa, he has shot lots of Yankee’s”.Factor’s Walk. This area was full of warehouse areas and stores that catered to the shipping industry of Savannah’s port. This area is between the level of River Street and Bay Street. Many people believe that some of the “vaults” built into the bluff were used to house slaves prior to sale, but there have been no primary source documents to prove that belief. Much of the River Street and Factor’s Walk area is paved with cobble stones that came to the port in the form of ballast stones as empty ships came to Savannah to ship out cotton and other items.
War Was Here 