From the Archives: Sherman all but destroyed Hope Mills
This article was originally published in The Fayetteville Observer on March 11, 1995. It was raining hard in southern Cumberland County when Gen. William T. Sherman led his Union troops toward Fayetteville 130 years ago.The weather may have been the only thing that slowed Sherman’s army as it marched into this area after having delivered “an awful punishment” on South Carolina in the waning months of the Civil War.As he marched his troops toward […]
