Old Ira Wheeler said,
"We killed as many yankees as we could, there were just too damn many of them."
Posted on 07/27/2009 3:11:29 PM PDT by BigReb555
Mostly because he believed in "total war, and total peace," as he put it himself, and did not support the persecution of the South that took place during Reconstruction under the Radicals.
As a matter of fact, he was an honored guest at many Confederate Veterans Camps all across the South, including the Eufaula AL Camp, of which my gg grandfather was commander at the time.
Probably he wouldn't have been as well received in Atlanta, but the real hatred of Sherman didn't start until he and the rest of the participants in the WBTS were dead.
***“Did you know that Confederate Brigadier Gen. Stand Watie,
an American Indian, held the highest rank on either side,***
He was also the last General to surrender his troops. the Stand Watie Memorial Highway is just a few miles West from here.
But the area has had something of a comeback and is doing pretty well. Restaurants, lofts, and what-not have sprung up around the park and the Aquarium.
The way America is heading, I sort of wish the South would’ve won. States would have more rights today.
Johnston was relieved before the first of the five battles that constiuted the Battle for Atlanta. That fiasco is aALL John Bell Hood’s.
That would be Jefferson Davis.
My husband -to -be took me to the Loews Grand Theater years ago (when we were dating while in college) -- (in 1939 they had the premiere opening of Gone With The Wind)
It was elaborate, beautiful and ornate....but alas, they have since torn it down.
Cleburne was toast after he proposed Emancipation for Southern slaves if they agreed to fight for the South. Jeff Davis wasn’t having any of that, preferring to continue fighting in defense of the ‘particular institution’ instead of changing the war strategy to attaining independence at the cost of slavery.
“Loews Grand Theater”
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It burned mysteriously.
I work in the building that stands on the site.
What is sad is that those that supported or support the Union also lost. They just didn’t or don’t know it. What did you win? You now have a socialists in the White House. You have a national debt that can never be repaid. You have brave soldiers dying in Afghanistan with no hope of ever winning (That’s what your President says.) You have the Federal Government walking all over state’s rights. You have high unemployment and high taxes. Wait until socialized medicine becomes the law of the land. You can’t even drill for oil. The black population in this country has an almost 90% illegitimacy rate and nearly a third of black males are in prison or will be in prison in one generation. I say again, what did you win?
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
by Henry Clay Work
Ring the good ol’ bugle, boys, we’ll sing another song,
Sing it with the 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!
How the darkies 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!—CHORUS
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!—CHORUS
“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!—CHORUS
So we made a thoroughfare for freedom and her train,
Sixty miles in latitude, 300 to the main.
Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain
While we were marching through Georgia!—CHORUS
General Sherman was I believe the first president of LSU. He donated a pair of brass cannons after the war to LSU where they can be found at the entrance of the field house. It is the job of the freshman class to keep them polished like a mirror. At least that was the way it was in the 1950’s when I was there
I'll be glad to spring for some Hanes t-shirts and some lighter fluid.
What's yer size?
Thanks for making me laugh!
Yankeee’s hubris is what it is.
Now they have come down here and helped ruin the Piedmont, Middle TN, Atlanta and most major cities in Florida.
Folks from the midwest are much more this Dixie boys cup of tea were I given a choice.’
What’s sadder though are the new politically correct Southern born and bred who are cultural tratiors.
Nashville has no shortage of them either.
Not my kids of course.
But Sherman did offer terms far better than the looney Radical GOP at the time would have. he and Grant both.
I do find it funny that the same folks on the left who applaud Sherman's total war on Americans would never tolerate it on foreign enemies today.
It's all about race baby. Gotta save da black man. Super whitey to the rescue
That mentality is so condescending to blacks..like they can't do it without the white race falling on it's sword
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