a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War | a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864 |
a republic in Asia Minor on the Black Sea separated from Russia by the Caucasus mountains; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991 | state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War |
one of the British colonies that formed the United States, with capital Savannah | |