Today in 1864 –
In Atlanta, Captain Rhett Butler rescues Scarlett O’Hara Hamilton, her sister-in-law Melanie Wilkes and her sister-in-law’s brand new baby from Aunt Pittypat’s Peachtree Street home before the Union army advances on the city.
Rhett declared his love for Scarlett but she rebuffed him.
But that’s not why we’re here …
Meanwhile in another part of Atlanta, Union General William T. Sherman began his March to the Sea and burnt Atlanta on this date.
The Haus of Dcaligari 