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To: crz

You want to tell us how Joe Wheeler terrorized the citizens of Georgia. LOLOL


58 posted on 05/02/2017 7:48:49 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

In late 1864, Wheeler’s cavalry did not accompany Hood on his Franklin–Nashville Campaign back into Tennessee and was virtually the only effective Confederate force to oppose Sherman’s March to the Sea to Savannah.[12] However, his resistance to Sherman did little to comfort Georgia civilians, and lax discipline within his command caused great dissatisfaction. Robert Toombs was quoted as saying, “I hope to God he will never get back to Georgia.” Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill wrote that “the whole of Georgia is full of bitter complaints of Wheeler’s cavalry.”[13]


60 posted on 05/02/2017 7:59:16 PM PDT by crz
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