#Sherman's March to the Sea

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #us civil war #american civil war #civil war #Georgia #Sherman's March to the Sea #memes #shitpost #republicans #conservatives #gop #donald trump

[bearded-shepherd]

#marjorie greene taylor #georgia #us politics #politics #news #sherman didnt do enough in the civil war #Sherman's march to the sea #Youtube

[lightdancer1]

"Hurrah, Hurrah, we bring the Jubilee, Hurrah, Hurrah, the flag that makes you free! So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the Sea as we were marching through Georgia!"

Following the fall of Atlanta Sherman began the campaign for which he's most known in the eyes of posterity, the dryly named Savannah Campaign or more famously Sherman's March to the Sea. This campaign, directly targeted at the civilians of the so-called Confederacy, sought to make a howling wilderness of Georgia. In this it succeeded, with Sherman's 60,000 marching wherever they damned well pleased, 300 miles to the main making a thoroughfare for freedom in their train.

Marching through Georgia began the process of the disintegration of the morale of Confederate armies and demonstrated that the Rebellion could not police its own lands nor deter strikes deep into its heart. It would be expanded on a greater scale in the Carolinas Campaign, while the army that failed to hold Atlanta marched to its own destruction in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign, which was simultaneous to the March to the Sea.

#lightdancer comments on history #black history month #us history #military history #war of the rebellion #sherman's march to the sea #savannah campaign #two names for the same event

[dear-ao3]

happy burning down georgia day!

#from katya #not a tag #shermans march to the sea

[captain-price-unofficially]

The US Army 40th Infantry and an M4 Sherman tank advance toward the Bago River Bridge on the island of Negros, Philippines, circa March 29, 1945.

#battle of the philippine sea #wwii #pacific theater #march #m4 sherman #tanks #american armor #american tanks

[navree]

what if i just fully unleashed my inner White Dad and started reading books about various civil war battles

#personal #been having A Week with all those 'oh men think so often about the roman empire whereas teehee girlies think about disney' takes #let girls think about the roman empire i think about it all the damn time #well really i think about the late republic/early empire/transitional period more because i like to read about augustus #but i was just reading about sherman's march to the sea and now i wanna read about civil war battles #either that or the romanovs but i can't find any really good books about the romanovs which is annoying #and NO ONE ever gave me good recommendations for books about the mughals except for that zebunissa book i'm reading rn #(also fun fact the civil war is when i'll be the most patriotic when it comes to america) #(cuz fuck the confederacy therefore full throated endorsement of the union and also fuck the confederacy and all confederates forever)

[civilwarvacations]

Marching with Uncle Billy

William Tecumseh Sherman was an ordinary corps commander for most of the American Civil War. He followed orders and was successful at times, but in other cases, such as Shiloh, he was outmaneuvered and, frankly, out generaled. Ulysses S. Grant deserves much credit for staying loyal to his subordinate and permitting Sherman to learn from his mistakes. Sherman learned his lessons, and 1864 was a…

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#Atlanta Campaign #Civil War Vacation #March to the Sea #William Tecumseh Sherman

[el-im]

#inappropriate comment about sherman's march to the sea #nau

[charlesetal]

i think the very terrible state of Georgia could be improved if we burned it all down and rebuilt it again. third times the charm as they say.

#georgiaphobic #georgia #ga #peach state #but there are no peaches to be found #south georgia #atlanta #civil war history #shermans March #March to the sea

[cryptotheism]

So it's called "Sherman's March to the Sea" and the guy said they roll it with the ashes of Georgian cotton plantations.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #american civil war #shermanposting #sherman did nothing wrong #william tecumseh sherman #sherman's march to the sea #fuck the confederates #fuck the confederacy #a confederacy of dunces #confederate states of america #georgia #memes #movies #raiders of the lost ark #indiana jones

[april-is]

April 15, 2024: Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation, Natalie Diaz

Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation Natalie Diaz Angels don’t come to the reservation. Bats, maybe, or owls, boxy mottled things. Coyotes, too. They all mean the same thing— death. And death eats angels, I guess, because I haven’t seen an angel fly through this valley ever. Gabriel? Never heard of him. Know a guy named Gabe though— he came through here one powwow and stayed, typical Indian. Sure he had wings, jailbird that he was. He flies around in stolen cars. Wherever he stops, kids grow like gourds from women’s bellies. Like I said, no Indian I’ve ever heard of has ever been or seen an angel. Maybe in a Christmas pageant or something— Nazarene church holds one every December, organized by Pastor John’s wife. It’s no wonder Pastor John’s son is the angel—everyone knows angels are white. Quit bothering with angels, I say. They’re no good for Indians. Remember what happened last time some white god came floating across the ocean? Truth is, there may be angels, but if there are angels up there, living on clouds or sitting on thrones across the sea wearing velvet robes and golden rings, drinking whiskey from silver cups, we’re better off if they stay rich and fat and ugly and ’xactly where they are—in their own distant heavens. You better hope you never see angels on the rez. If you do, they’ll be marching you off to Zion or Oklahoma, or some other hell they’ve mapped out for us.

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Another abecedarian!

Also: + The Terrible Beauty of the Reserve, Billy-Ray Belcourt + Anchorage, Joy Harjo + At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994, Sherman Alexie

Today in:

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#abecedarian #indigenous / first nations #history #race #poetry #natalie diaz

[lightdancer1]

Wrapped up the next of the set of War of the Rebellion books and the first of two on the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns, or Sherman's March to the Sea and the March through the Carolinas. This one is a bottom-up analysis that looks at the campaigns through the eyes of individual soldiers, noting that this was a campaign waged by the elite of the elite and that it showed at every possible level.

10/10.

#lightdancer comments on history #book reviews #war of the rebellion #sherman's march to the sea #carolinas campaign

[dear-ao3]

#not a tag #civil war #saphs poll of the day #(it is not saphs poll of the day its katyas poll of the day)

[beardedmrbean]

NGL; the thing that i'm honestly the most frustrated and scared about with the shitshow going on in Gaza is that when Israel inevitably retaliates, there is going to be so much crying.

And it won't matter if its either the most restrained military action ever or if the IDF makes Sherman's march look like a fucking joke, the crying will be exactly as loud and exactly as full of shit.

They've already started the retaliation, bibi went and declared it a war which I'm not sure how that all works if the fact that hamass decided to fire the opening shots means a de-facto declaration of war or not but if so there's all kinds of war crimes being perpetrated by their side, we know this because they keep posting them on the internet for some reason.

Hopefully them dragging naked and bloodied women through the streets and tossing them into vehicles will be enough to get some of the members of the hitler youth that seem to think hamass is the good guy here to at a minimum shut the fuck up.

But then again you'd think hamass having finishing the Holocaust in their charter would have been enough already and it's not, so ya way to go if you're cheering on hamass you're cheering on a group that wants all Jewish people everywhere dead and gone.

And they still consider themselves the good guys somehow too.

Both sides are assholes in a lot of ways, but only one preaches genocide.

inb4 someone mentions a palestenian genocide, look at the population growth in the palestenian territories and shut up

As for restraint from Israel, not sure how much of that they have left, or that it even matters given the fact that ham ass puts their munitions caches and manufacturing inside schools and hospitals using children and the sick as human shields.

I'd really hoped the people of Gaza would finally decide they'd had enough and eject hamass and try for a existence in peace before things flared up this high again.

Which might be why it happened, terrorists in charge saw a sea change and decided to go the nero route.

#switch up snowfox

[thoughtportal]

Black Farmers

the 1619 podcast has a great episode about Black Farmers https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/podcasts/1619-slavery-sugar-farm-land.html?

In the fall of 1864 at the height of the Civil War, one of the most famous Union generals, William Tecumseh Sherman, begins his march out of the city of Atlanta to the sea.

And as Sherman and his men make their way through Georgia, black Southerners are seeing an opportunity.

And so by the thousands, they start to leave the plantations where they’ve been enslaved and are falling behind Sherman’s troops as they make their way to the coast.

But these newly liberated people were not exactly welcomed. Sherman didn’t actually oppose slavery, and so he’s really not that sympathetic to those who are fleeing these plantations, and he also sees them as a drain on his resources. They are families. They are people of all ages, young and old, who need food and care, and they are slowing the troops down.

By December of that year, some of Sherman’s troops are about to approach Savannah, and they come upon a creek that is both too wide and too deep to cross without a bridge. So the troops start building one, and they instruct the black people who are following them to just wait, that the troops need to cross first, but then they’ll be able to come after. But the Confederate Army is on their heels, and once the Union troops cross, they break up the bridge, leaving all those people who had just escaped slavery behind to face either the icy waters or the rebel army that was in pursuit.

It is a massacre. Some of them drown trying to swim across. Others are trampled or shot to death, and those who remain are captured and re-enslaved. When word gets back to Lincoln’s secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, he is outraged. He has Sherman pull together a meeting with 20 black church leaders. There’s a transcript of this meeting, and it shows that these two men, Stanton and Sherman, actually turned to this group of black leaders and asked them, what do you want for your own people?

Speaking for the group, one of the men tells them, “The way we can best take care of ourselves is to have land, and turn it and till it by our own labor — that is, by the labor of the women and children and old men, and we can soon maintain ourselves and have something to spare.”

And what’s remarkable is that Sherman turns that request of those men for land to work for themselves into a government order, Special Order No. 15. It said that the government would take 400,000 acres that it had seized from the Confederacy and split it up among those thousands of newly emancipated people. This becomes what is perhaps the most famous provision of the Reconstruction period, which we all know as 40 acres and a mule. President Lincoln approves the order, but soon after, he’s assassinated. And Andrew Johnson, a Southerner who had once enslaved people himself, takes over the presidency and quickly overturns it. And within a few short months, the small amount of land that had been distributed to black people was returned to white Southerners.

#tiktok #farmers #black farmers #podcast #farming #history #USDA #civil rights #reagan was a terrible president #us history