<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" id="mwhw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah,_Georgia" id="mwiA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Savannah, Georgia">Savannah, Georgia</a>, falls to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" id="mwiQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union's</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Tennessee" id="mwig" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Army of the Tennessee">Army of the Tennessee</a>, and General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman" id="mwiw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Tecumseh Sherman">Sherman</a> tells President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" id="mwjA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah".<sup about="#mwt89" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"}}' id="cite_ref-15" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_22#cite_note-15" id="mwjQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 15;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwjg">[15]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"><cite about="#mwt86" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFReid2020">Reid, Brian Holden (2020). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TyPdDwAAQBAJ" id="mwB-M" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB-Q">The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman</i></a>. New York: Oxford University Press. p.<span id="mwB-U" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>371. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB-Y" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB-c" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780195392739" id="mwB-g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780195392739"><bdi id="mwB-k">9780195392739</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt86" class="Z3988" id="mwB-o" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Scourge+of+War%3A+The+Life+of+William+Tecumseh+Sherman&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=371&amp;rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2020&amp;rft.isbn=9780195392739&amp;rft.aulast=Reid&amp;rft.aufirst=Brian+Holden&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DTyPdDwAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+22"></span></span>