Sherman's March to the Sea, 1931 Apr. ; [typescript].

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Sherman's March to the Sea, 1931 Apr. ; [typescript].

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Typescript of an address presented, Apr. 1931, to the United Daughters of the Confederacy by Johnson re capture of Atlanta in Aug. 1864 by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman; the subsequent march through South Carolina; the burning of Columbia, S.C., on the night of 17 Feb. 1865; and comparing Sherman's troops of the Civil War era to German soldiers during World War I. Johnson's speech compares the "frightful atrocities of... the forces of Emperor William of Germany" including "how the German naval forces bombarded the unfortified towns on the English coast," but advises "When you read how the Prussians stole everything of value from the citizens and churches in northern France, do not condemn them. They had the precedent set by Sherman in his march to the sea for any barbarous action which they committed."

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Johnson, Ella B. (Ella Blanche), 1922-

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