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Maybe you can answer the question, since you two seem in sync. What does the 1970's country-pop hit, "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" have to do with Sherman's march, other than both have a setting in Georgia? In what sense does a song about a man executed for killing his wife and her lover, a crime his sister really committed, lead someone to believe that it has "Sherman and his nasty adventures written all over them."?

Or is it possible that Mrs. Schwerin scanned down this list of titles, noted two that sounded like something bad happening in Georgia, and without having a clue about the actual contents of the songs, said "Harrumph, we'll just see about that!" and came on to claim that the song is somehow redolent of Sherman's march?

Don't get me started on "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" except to say that only someone utterly paranoid and obsessed would claim that the Devil in the song, challenging a boy to fiddling contest and losing, represents William T. Sherman.