When Georgia Howled: Sherman on the March | GPB Documentaries

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The Union didn’t start the war, but Sherman made sure they would end it

Great video on a key moment in the Civil War. A Teenager’s Guide to the Civil War: A History Book for Teens gives an overview of the war specifically for teens.

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Too start, the civil war, or the war between the states wasn't fought for freeing the slaves. It was because the north was robbing the south. The bs about the freeing the slaves came after!!!

Sherman was a great general but not so much a great people person. As far as he was concerned, the slaves that he freed were just a consequence. But still, his campaign across Georgia in retrospect really did save black people from being enslaved into the 20th century!

Sherman did his job as a solider,it was the slave owners fault who bought the first slaves and fought to keep them. They still live in denial to this day it was a civil war not a war between the states thats what most white southerners still say. My ancestors suffered untold amounts of horror my skin color shows part of the story not totally black, light skin mixed. I am happy they survived. I am also sad this beautiful country bought this upon itself so many lives lost so much suffering and cruelty. May god bless the USA and bring this country together all the present denial hate and intolerance only serves to divide us and let's the enemy of freedom win.

why they hated sherman is because he took their cash cow from them and put their butts out to secure their own without human bondage to supply them but little they know sherman just scratched the surface the most high will still require payment for their southern crimes and the united snakes government live it up but the end is near

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I had heard a story that exists to this day that a citizen even a multi-generation citizen of Atlanta cannot purchase or will be sold a pinhead size parcel of property if your last name be Sherman, no matter how much the offer.
IMSHO Sherman's tactic to humiliate the coastal elites is eerily and similarly appropriate and likely to occur as we fast forward some 160 years to present day 2024....

Sherman wasnt the only general seen as cruel or evil by war.

Franz Sigel was considered an extremeist for wanting to murder Davis and the confederate cabinet.

Grant was called the Butcher by northern newspapers after the debacle at cold harbor.

Sherman was hated for his total war in the department of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

Ben Butler was nicknamed “Beast” for his treatment of civilians in New Orleans in 1862.

Rebels got beat so bad they didnt want any more!!

Joseph e brown governor of Georgia

The South will howl again.

The first real rigged election, all the Yankees soldiers ballots mystoriously voted for Lincoln

Fight for slaves but send thousands of southern woman into slavery and prostitution. Cowards sorry ass men, Yankees, devil's

This is the most brainwashed black man I have ever seen, they just called Sherman the second Moses, slavery still occurs to this day around the world. Everyone ever sold for slave labor from Africa was sold by hi fellow black African. So drop this confederate hate speech. If you're All so worried about slaves close the southern border on mexico and all the human trafficking and all that is still happening today. The south winning the war would have been the best thing for Americans government. But at least I stopped slavery in the south where most slaves stayed on their masters land and took their last names but South is bad America good. How ignorant are you people

Sherman was brutal no doubt! I am proud of the Confederate Soldiers who defended the south against him! War is Brutal!

I’m born & raised in Marietta, Ga. I remember in middle school they were saying it was haunted because the school was built on one of the confederate cemeteries. Alot of history on the streets I grew up riding bikes on

To view the Atlanta battlefield, which is pretty much developed, you just got to go to the markers of where the Battle was fought. From what I read, the battle was fought east of the city around Decatur, Georgia. Sites of the battle like Bald Hill, where interstate 20 crosses, and the site where Union General McPherson was killed. And sites in downtown Atlanta, like in underground, where a freed African American who owned a barber shop was killed by a shell during the 5 week bombardment and siege, and where a father and daughter were killed by a shell as they were sleeping. Also go to Jonesboro, Georgia, where Sherman's army cut off the remaining railroad that was supplying Hood's army in Atlanta, forcing Hood to evacuate.

Thank you,,,, you rotten trader John Bell Hood. Backstabbing General Johnston. Your actions lost us the WAR.....May you rot in hell....

Lincoln and Union Generals were absolute war criminals for purposely targeting civilians. These are absolute facts that none of us were taught in school. By the way some of these same Generals wiped out a lot of native Americans after the war. Women, children, didn’t matter

March again

I believe there's an argument that, if there had not been a Civil War, the South would have industrialised within 25 years and slavery would have been abolished anyway as being inefficient.

My great great grandfather's Plantation in McDonough Georgia (Henry City) was destroyed by Sherman. A diary by a great great grandmother (Mary Jane Ayer), talked about taking the cows and hiding them in the swamp from the Yankees. They hid anything they could. Dr Epps Manson died before the end of the War. She died ofTB in Atlanta and her children were sent to Maine.

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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

I’ve watched this several times. Very well done. Thank you.

Damn..it's not the Union Army...it is the United States Army!

“Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam”

Cump

"For good ole-fashioned kindness and hospitality...you just can't beat,
The Slave States!"

-Emo Phillips

I lived in the Boulevard Historic District in an anti-bellum mansion.
Sherman had the good sense to go around Athens Ga.
Don't bring that mess round here!

Our courthouse has a confederate double-barrell cannon. The two balls were attatched by a 6 foot chain.
We were ready. Try us.
Go Dawgs!!

Sherman might not have been an abolitionist but he sure as hell brought liberty and a good dosage of fiery fury, I wonder if the Black Panther in WW II would sing Union Dixy

Immortalized by Sherman tanks in WW2

Please stop this subversion of the truth of our history. You’re doing us no service.

Lincoln replaced him with a Democrat from Ohio Stanton. Cameron took kick backs by buying boots that dissolved in a rainstorm because they were made for corpses he paid very cheap price but marked them up in price pocketing the difference

Simon Cameron would steal a stove as long as it wasn’t HOT!

A war to preserve the profits of free labor all about Money if I hear “States rights” I ask the states’ rights to do what? To buy, sell and breed human beings like animals?

All wars are politicians wars. Politicians only respond to money.

Make Georgia howl!!!! My man Sherman.

Unhung War CRIMMAL.

I think that some of these speakers on here aught to read Sherman's memoirs before making statements about him having nervous breakdowns and while your at it read Grant's memoirs as well. Many of these statements are based on what was in the press at the time and not the truth... Ridiculous fabrications....!!!

that's ok, Sherman lost at least 200 crossing our property. At every crossroads, at every stream, at every creekbed, we were there.