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3 days ago · “Bummer” had once been used as an epithet for slackers and thieves, but Sherman’s men took this on as an honored nickname. They were, in the words of the New York Times, the “glorious veterans…heroes of the greatest march on record,” and their beloved Uncle Billy, General William Tecumseh Sherman, was the man of the hour.
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2 days ago · Pooler played a significant role in the Civil War as the last train stop before Savannah. In December 1864, a pivotal event occurred here during General William Tecumseh Sherman’s march to the sea. In Pooler, Union officers negotiated Savannah’s surrender, ultimately saving the city from destruction unlike other Southern towns.
2 days ago · On Political War. Part of the discourse this morning on Bluesky was about General William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the Sea through Georgia during the Civil War. I missed most of it, but it provoked a very good thread on political war from Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc). Flowers is an Assistant Professor at ...
1 day ago · It was thus the prime military objective of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s invasion of Georgia from Chattanooga, known as the Atlanta Campaign. Sherman inflicted heavy casualties on Confederate forces during the Battle of Atlanta, on July 22, 1864, but the city did not fall to his Union troops until several months later, on September 1. It ...
3 days ago · As stated famously by William Tecumseh Sherman, “War is hell.” And the longer a war drags on with no conclusion, the less popular it is likely to become. But three generations of American adults have been raised knowing about the horrors of the Holocaust (from among the late Millennials onwards, American children are more likely to have ...
3 days ago · The deed of the club, read by Booth on New Year’s Eve to the initial fifteen founding members (which included Mark Twain and William Tecumseh Sherman) provided for a furnished room in the...
4 days ago · The tank was named by the British after the American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman. [7] The M4 Sherman evolved from the M3 medium tank, [b] which – for speed of development – had its main armament in a side sponson mount.