We get a history lesson and see Atlanta from atop Vinings Mountain with historian Tony Doyle.On July 6th, 1864, some three years and three months after the start of the American Civil War, a Union general by the name of William Tecumseh Sherman rode his horse "Sam" up the side of one of the southernmost foothills of the lower Appalachians. He was about 9 miles northwest of Atlanta, and from the summit he could see the church spires of a town which he and his troops would soon leave in ruins. The spot where Sherman viewed the distant target was and is Vinings Mountain. We visited that very spot with local historian Tony Doyle, author of Vinings Revisited.
