[jeffersondem]

“Though tattered and worn, Sherman and the approximately sixty-five thousand troops . . .”

The troops must have been exhausted from carrying all the stolen loot.

And guilt.

[NohSpinZone]

Sherman’s bummers were certainly not going to win any popularity contests in GA, SC, or NC. In fact a few of them ended up lynched with “death to foragers” signs adorned on them until Sherman vigorously enforced the policy of executing one rebel prisoner for every raider killed. A few raiders went so beyond the pale, their own army court-martialed and executed them.