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On the night of December 20, 1864, General Hardee's Confederate garrison slipped out of Savannah over a pontoon bridge into South Carolina, leaving the city to surrender to Sherman the next day.
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Evacuation of Savannah
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About this site
Evacuation of Savannah is a historical marker in Savannah, Chatham County, erected in 1957. It is one of 339 historical markers documented in Chatham County, among 480 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.0817, -81.0944 near Savannah. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Montmollin Building and Bryan School (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include The First Act of Alcohol Prohibition in America, Jonathan Bryan, and Ships That Carried the Name Savannah.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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