In his mind s eye, author John Berendt can still conjure up his first glimpse of Savannah, Ga., driving southwest from Charleston over the U.S. 17 Talmadge Memorial Bridge, seeing a patchwork of greens and browns, with church steeples and rooftops peeking through the dense tree canopy.
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On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln gifted the enslaved Black people the Emancipation Proclamation. On Dec. 22, 1864, Sherman gifted Savannah to to the president.