Good morning.
Whitewater will have a mostly sunny Friday, with a high of fifty-one, and southwest winds of 5 to 10 mph.
On this day in 1864, Gen. Sherman begins his March to the Sea:
…Union General William T. Sherman begins his expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and pulling away from his supply lines. For the next six weeks, Sherman’s army destroyed most of the state before capturing the Confederate seaport of Savannah, Georgia….
After hearing that President Abraham Lincoln had won re-election on November 8, Sherman ordered 2,500 light wagons loaded with supplies. Doctors checked each soldier for illness or injuries, and those who were deemed unfit were sent to Nashville. Sherman wrote to his general in chief, Ulysses S. Grant, that if he could march through Georgia it would be “proof positive that the North can prevail.” He told Grant that he would not send couriers back, but to “trust the Richmond papers to keep you well advised.” Sherman loaded the surplus supplies on trains and shipped them back to Nashville. On November 15, the army began to move, burning the industrial section of Atlanta before leaving. One witness reported “immense and raging fires lighting up whole heavens… huge waves of fire roll up into the sky; presently the skeleton of great warehouses stand out in relief against sheets of roaring, blazing, furious flames.” Sherman’s famous destruction of Georgia had begun.
On this day in 1887, a great artist is born in Sun Prairie:
‘Pineapple Bud”, oil on canvas painting by ”Georgia O’Keeffe, 1939 Source: Saville, Jennifer, ”Georgia O’Keeffe, Paintings of Hawai’i”, Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts via Wikipeda. Assertion of Fair Use. 1887 – Georgia O’Keeffe Born
On this date Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie. She studied at the Chicago Art Institute from 1904 to 1905. In 1907 she relocated to New York to study at the Arts Students League with William Chase. In 1926 she unveiled her now famous flower paintings. She received much of her artistic inspiration from her surroundings in New Mexico, where she settled permanently in 1946. O’Keeffe was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977. Georgia O’Keeffe died in 1986 in Santa Fe. [Source: Wisconsin Women: A Gifted Heritage]Scientific American‘s daily trivia question asks about a characteristic of some organisms. (Clicking on the question leads to its answer.)
