"Sherman's Southern Winter Tour"

[John Hartwell]

The following summary from the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, (2 Dec. 1864), doesn't sound all that outraged.

 

[Keiri]

Were they implying that the federals killed "negro women and children"?

 

[nitrofd]

The following summary from the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, (2 Dec. 1864), doesn't sound all that outraged.

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Reading that it does say there was a lot of destruction along the way.

 

[John Hartwell]

Reading that it does say there was a lot of destruction along the way.

And a lot of forbearance, with heavy punishment of looters, etc. Not the unremitting, Sherman-ordered, savagery of later tradition.

 

[nitrofd]

In most references Sherman looked the other way about the looters,some but few may have been published but the majority were not.remember this is a southern newspaper so of course they would say the union soldiers were punished.it is propaganda for a defeated population.

 

[GMSorrel]

Surprised someone hasn't made a tour t-shirt for Sherman's March....or maybe they have and I haven't seen it

 

[nitrofd]

I am sure it would be a big seller in Georgia and South Carolina.

 

[John Hartwell]

In most references Sherman looked the other way about the looters,some but few may have been published but the majority were not.remember this is a southern newspaper so of course they would say the union soldiers were punished.it is propaganda for a defeated population.

Perhaps. But wouldn't you expect the propaganda to exaggerate the threat, thereby building up the determination to resist? That's what besieged governments usually do. Then, maybe it's defeatist propaganda. My purpose was just to point out that the outrage and bitterness was much less here than is often heard today.

Surprised someone hasn't made a tour t-shirt for Sherman's March....or maybe they have and I haven't seen it

There are several of them: https://www.zazzle.com/gen_sherman_heat_a_peach_tour_1864_shirt_light-235515826151588940
https://www.zazzle.com/shermans_southern_tour_t_shirt-235499533311109544