Shermans March

[sargebill]

Sunday night on History International at 8 pm there will be a show on Shermans March,it looks like it might be good. Just thought i would let everyone know that it was coming on....Thanks

 

[Littlestown]

Thanks for the heads-up sargebill! I'll have to find out if I get that channel.

 

[ole]

Think I watched that at least twice. Will watch it again, tho. Thanks for the head's up.

 

[wilber6150]

I rather enjoyed it, but I'm sure some of our Southern friends would rather get a root canal without novacane

 

[RobertP]

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[Hannah]

I thought it was a really interesting documentry.

I've chatted with the actor who played General Sherman a few times. He's a really nice guy.

 

[sargebill]

Im watching it right now,i have never seen this show....so far it looks pretty good

The show "April 1865" comes on next at 10 pm,gonna check that one out too!!

 

[hoosier]

Son of a gun, I saw this thread too late.

I do get History International on my cable system. Unfortunately, the local newspaper doesn't include it in the weekly listings.

 

[sargebill]

it comes on again during the night,if you have a DVR you can record it for later

 

[ole]

Last night, they played them both twice. With my server, H-I is two channels up from the History Channel. Neither reveal any startling new facts; but neither made serious errors. They were just a nice dramatization of the events.

 

[wags6817]

We should create a weekly thread with any Civil War type shows and movies that may appear on the boob-tube.

 

[Hannah]

We should create a weekly thread with any Civil War type shows and movies that may appear on the boob-tube.

I second your idea.

I've been flipping through the DirecTV schedule seeing all that History is offering on the Civil War.

I know on Tuesday they will have a documentry on Lee and Grant at 9 PM.

 

[Glorybound]

We should create a weekly thread with any Civil War type shows and movies that may appear on the boob-tube.

http://civilwartalk.com/forums/showthread.php?24933-Civil-War-on-TV

 

[Greg Taylor]

Im watching it right now,i have never seen this show....so far it looks pretty good

The show "April 1865" comes on next at 10 pm,gonna check that one out too!!

Both these programs are orders of magnitude better than "Gettysburg" and "Lee and Grant", IMO. I will be forever grateful to Sherman for having liberated my great-great grandfather from imprisonment at Camp Asylum at Columbia, S.C where he spent 8 months after being captured at the battle of the Crater. "Camp Asylum" was also known as "Camp Lunacy" having been built adjacent to a lunatic asylum.

 

[ole]

Shernan's March, in some quarters, is looked upon as a war crime. He destroyed propery, which is strangely looked upon as being worse than destroying lives. He lost, roughly, 0.1 percent of his force, i.e., 600 out of 60,000. Outside of Griswoldsville, he didn't take a whole bunch of lives either. It was property he destroyed, and that is what honks off a lot of people.

 

[sargebill]

Both these programs are orders of magnitude better than "Gettysburg" and "Lee and Grant", IMO. I will be forever grateful to Sherman for having liberated my great-great grandfather from imprisonment at Camp Asylum at Columbia, S.C where he spent 8 months after being captured at the battle of the Crater. "Camp Asylum" was also known as "Camp Lunacy" having been built adjacent to a lunatic asylum.

Camp Asylum was for officers most of their men were sent to Andersonville

 

[max]

Much has been written and filmed to justify and glorify Sherman's march, looking at the timeline the south was pretty much beaten at that point in time, it just seemed to be a slap in the face of a foe that was almost done in. Just my opinion, but I guess I have some fairly strong southern roots to deal with.

 

[johan_steele]

Read Jeff Davis... he certainly didn't think he was beaten in 1864, neither did most of the CS. Sherman proved to all but the thick in the head that the war was over and the CS had lost. And he did it w/out killing thousands.

Much has been written and filmed to justify and glorify Sherman's march, looking at the timeline the south was pretty much beaten at that point in time, it just seemed to be a slap in the face of a foe that was almost done in. Just my opinion, but I guess I have some fairly strong southern roots to deal with.

 

[Nathanb1]

I rather enjoyed it, but I'm sure some of our Southern friends would rather get a root canal without novacane

How about this--I even watched both of them while I was in Jamaica. Expected to hear Twilight Zone music any minute!

 

[unionblue]

Much has been written and filmed to justify and glorify Sherman's march, looking at the timeline the south was pretty much beaten at that point in time, it just seemed to be a slap in the face of a foe that was almost done in. Just my opinion, but I guess I have some fairly strong southern roots to deal with.

max,

First off, welcome to the forum and thank you for your post above.

I feel that I must disagree with you a bit, concerning the idea that at the time of Sherman's march, the South felt it was pretty much beaten. That's simply not the impression I have at all. If anything, it was because most Southerners of the time were so stubborn and so determined to fight on, Sherman conceived of the idea of marching through Georgia to ultimately convince those determined folk that the war was going against them and they simply had no way to win it.

I appreciate your Southern roots and your opinion of the march, but in my own opinion, it's because your roots were so determined to see the war through, no matter what the cost, that Sherman had to do some mighty tall convincing to convince them they were almost done in. The human spirit can seemingly last far longer than any lack of supplies, food, and manpower, especially if that spirit believes it can carry on.

It was no 'slap in the face of a foe that was almost done,' but a determined campaign to make a brave foe realize the futility of further resistence.

Sincerely,
Unionblue