When Georgia Howled: Sherman on the March | GPB Documentaries
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Published 2015-09-11
Originally Aired September 10, 2015
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All Comments (21)
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My great-grandfather and family were enslaved on a plantation near Savannah, and were freed when Sherman came through; my family stayed in the area until 1873 and then went west, to Ft. Smith Arkansas.
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"Don't blame me....You started this fire when you attacked Fort Sumter, and now the flames have reached your homes" William T Sherman.
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the champion of ‘F* around and find out’
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"don't blame me for that. It's not my fault, I'm here. I didn't start this, but by god I'm going to end it" So succinctly and brilliantly phrased.
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General Sherman when asked said, " War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want".
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When Sherman died, Johnston stood in the pouring rain for hours, hatless at his funeral. When asked why, he is said to have replied that Sherman would’ve done the same for him. Johnston died of pneumonia within two weeks.
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"War is cruelty, there's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over." -- William T. Sherman
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They seriously need to make an actual tv series of this just like Band of Brothers..
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“War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.” - William T. Sherman
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Georgia: "War for the Confederacy!!" Also Georgia: "But do you mind doing this somewhere else?"
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At a Democratic Party national convention a number of years after the Civil War, the state delegations marched in one at a time, to the strains of their state songs. When the Georgia delegates entered, the band struck up "Marching Through Georgia." There was nearly a riot.
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If you read General Grants memoirs he called Johnston being replaced by Hood one of the best actions that Jefferson Davis did for the Union. Johnston strategy of prolonging things, retreating to the next defensible line was frustrating for Sherman's Army. Hood's aggression and lack of any strategy other then fighting played right into Sherman's hands.
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Sherman "Well , if you are going to call it the war of Northern aggression..."
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"You have started this fire when you attacked Fort Sumter. Now the flames have reached your homes"-William T. Sherman
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When I was on a project in St Louis, I visited General Sherman's grave to pay my respect. His brother is the Sherman of the Sherman Anti-trust Act.
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What was one aspect of the times before telephones is how beautifully people wrote letters , no doubt a lost art . People with limited education could write in a beautiful style..
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Sherman was probably the first high-ranking General to openly state how many men were going to be needed to win the war; he understood the scope of it, and understood what was going to be necessary to win it. He outright warned several of his acquaintances who went to join the Confederacy how they had no chance, and what was going to happen to them when they lost. Yes, Sherman was flawed. But he understood the war from the beginning.
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"You people dont know what your talking about. War is a terrible thing." - Sherman
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I'm British and always been very interested in the US Civil War. This is a fantastic documentary and really well done, thank you.
