one might argue that General Sherman is best remembered for liberating
about 2,000,000 people from slavery and breaking the back of the
Confederacy's ability to continue the war, thus insuring the liberation
of another 2,000,000 or so slaves, an insuring that the United States
remained one nation, indivisible with liberty and freedom for all. Not
a bad record!
Paul Finkelman
Randy Cabell wrote:
> At the risk of fanning the flames, I should note that mathematically
> speaking, in the short hand of BASIC:
>
> SHERMAN <> SHERIDAN (i.e. Gen. Sherman is not the same as Gen. Sheridan.)
>
> Little Phil Sheridan, worked the Valley of Virginia in the last year of The
> War. Meanwhile, Sherman was solidifying the Atlanta sector and preparing
> for his famous March to the Sea. (My grandmother used to tell of her
> mother's two memories of Sherman when he came through Milledgeville, GA (1)
> The troops could not catch the guiena hens who were too fast for them and
> thus avoided being a bellum version of Chick-Fil-A. (2) some troops went
> over to the Episcopal Church and poured mollasses down the organ pipes. #2
> is substantiated in several accounts of the March to the Sea.)
>
> Probably Sherman's major contribution to the vernaculer is his famous "WAR
> IS HELL". It indeed was and is, and I expect that burning of "Virginia"
> county records was simply one more act which bespeaks of the insanity and
> inhumanty of war. I recall some years ago of trying to find genealogical
> records in Henrico County, only to find that first the British in the
> Revolution and then the Union troops in The War, destroyed most of the
> records. And of course, our own Thomas Jefferson repopulated the book
> collection of the Library of Congress after the British burnt Washington in
> the War of 1812.
>
> I don't know where Sheridan went after The War, but I know that Custer was
> assigned to the west, and got a job for his old West Point Classmate, and
> former adversary on the Confederate side, Gen. Rosser. The story was that
> Custer got Rosser a job as surveyor for one of the railroads, and Custer's
> men protected the surveying teams, but when attacked Rosser was known to
> set
> aside his surveying instruments, and pick up rifle and join the fight. I
> believe he eventually settled in Charlottesville or Waynesboro, but have
> neve seen a definitive biography of the man.
>
> Randy Cabell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "qvarizona" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:04 PM
> Subject: [VA-HIST] Blame it all on Sherman?
>
>
>> Good for you, Ray. Let it rest. I didn't particularly think either you
>> or Randy were funny when you joked about Sherman, but I see no reason for
>> anyone to get terribly upset, even if your jokes were in bad taste. Who
>> amongst us hasn't had a joke fall flat?
>>
>> Joanne
>> Another "Genealogical-Skitzo", descendant of early Virginians and
>> lots of Yankees, including John and Priscella. They ALL fought,
>> particularly
>> the Scots-Irish, who, as we all know, were " Born Fighting."
>>
>>
>> Ray Bonis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> ha!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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