My recollection of US History is that it was General Sherman, not Sheridan, that burnt Atlanta (and everything east of it) down.
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, mpdickens wrote: > dep wrote: > > i knew that he had been terribly wounded at chickamauga, > > My great great grandfather survived both the Battle of the Wilderness > and Gettysburg (My great great uncle survived Wilderness to die at > Gettysburg). However, he died from wounds he recieved at Chicamauga > three days after the battle... He was from Georgia and knew if > Chicamauga fell, Atlanta and therefore Georgia would fall...(Atlanta was > totally burned to the ground within a month of Chicamauga. Not a single > building was left standing). Milledgeville burned within a month > of Atlanta and Savannah burned within a month of Milledgeville. Sheridan > lost a military aid at the Battle of Chicamauga who he considered his > adopted son... He swore he would burn Georgia to the ground and he did. > As Sheridan marched to the sea, he literally burned *everything* in his > path and left nothing.... In Milledgeville, he turned the Episcopal > church and the Catholic church in horse stables. He ordered his men to > pour molasses down the pipes of the organs located in both churches. > Upon leaving Milledgeville, Sheridan ordered both churches burned to the > ground and any civilians shot who tried to stop it. Problem was, > Washington was so far away and communications so bad, there was nobody > to stop him. It was totally unnecessary and was, in fact, an > act of vengence. > > > Best > > Peck > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
