Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016. The 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests taking place within all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories, occurring between February 1 and June 7. Sanctioned by the Republican Party, these elections are designed to select the 2,472 delegates to send to the Republican National Convention, who selected the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election, Donald Trump. The delegat
BATTLE MAP | Civil War Trustâs map of the Battle of Chattanooga, Tennessee on November 25, 1863
Grant, who was made commander of the Union armies in 1863, ordered Sherman to push from Chattanooga, while he (Grant) went up against Lee in the East. Sherman (with 100,000 men) took Atlanta, Georgia (September 1864) and then began his March to the Sea, which ended (December 1864) at Savannah, Georgia.