Posted on 12/05/2014 5:44:32 AM PST by TurboZamboni
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — At the heart of this well-preserved antebellum city, sunbeams stream through the arched windows of a grand public meeting room that mirrors the whole Civil War — including its death throes, unfolding 150 years ago this week when Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman launched his scorching March to the Sea.
The first major objective along Sherman's route, Milledgeville was Georgia's capital at the time, and this room was the legislative chamber. Crossing its gleaming floor, Amy Wright couldn't help recalling family stories of the hated "foragers" who swept through then. "They were just called 'Sherman's men,'" she said in a hushed voice.
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My brother lives in Georgia and reports that Sherman continues to be despised.
Depends if one is a carpetbagger or not, I should know...
Nobody remembers Peabody...
War criminal
100% correct. The accounts of his horrors are revolting. Lee never acted like that on his forays north of VA.
Even I don’t. Unless you mean “and Sherman”
Stripped their path of anvils too.
The lore is that they often fired them high into the air over swamps or marshes.
Yup. Second man on the Moon phenomenon.
My Great grandmother was on a flatcar evacuating Atlanta ahead of Sherman.
“My brother lives in Georgia and reports that Sherman continues to be despised.”
My family left the South immediately after The War, and have been living among the yankees for 150 years, and we still despise Sherman.
Too bad there isn’t a thumbs up on FR, Pissing on Sherman’s grave would get 50 from me. FUWTS
Except in Chambersburg ...
(Just sayin ... not making an excuse)
We'll sing another song,
Sing it like we sang it then 50,000 strong,
Sang it as we marched along from Atlanta to the sea,
While we were marching through Georgia."
Prayers for Uncle Billy
Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song
Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along
Sing it as we used to sing it, 50,000 strong
While we were marching through Georgia.
Chorus
Hurrah! Hurrah! we bring the jubilee!
Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea
While we were marching through Georgia.
Verse 2
How the darkeys shouted when they heard the joyful sound
How the turkeys gobbled which our commissary found
How the sweet potatoes even started from the ground
While we were marching through Georgia.
Verse 3
Yes and there were Union men who wept with joyful tears,
When they saw the honored flag they had not seen for years;
Hardly could they be restrained from breaking forth in cheers,
While we were marching through Georgia.
Verse 4
"Sherman's dashing Yankee boys will never reach the coast!"
So the saucy rebels said and 'twas a handsome boast
Had they not forgot, alas! to reckon with the Host
While we were marching through Georgia.
Verse 5
So we made a thoroughfare for freedom and her train,
Sixty miles in latitude, three hundred to the main;
Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain
While we were marching through Georgia.
While I am not a Sherman supporter in any way it would do us well to remember that wars should be fought to win and apply some of those tactics/processes to the way we DON’T fight them today.
“Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the women”
Chambersburg was the exception that proves the rule.
William T. Sherman’s personal regiment was the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment - Southerners who remained loyal to the Union and the cause of the country.
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