I just found out what the damn Yankees did to Atlanta
>>217664662The Confederacy is no more. Whutever semb'lance of unnity and protekshun it once provided is a phan-tom, a mem'ry.
>heh i sure to love owning slaves, racism so base-ACK
>>217664662It was really fucked up and Redditors love to be like "do it again"! "YEAH KILL EM"
>>217666096Reddit
>>217664662its like when alexander destroyed thebes
>>217664662what did they do
We rode out of Atlanta by the Decatur road, filled by the marching troops and wagons of the Fourteenth Corps; and reaching the hill, just outside of the old rebel works, we naturally paused to look back upon the scenes of our past battles. We stood upon the very ground whereon was fought the bloody battle of July 22d, and could see the copse of wood where McPherson fell. Behind us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city. Away off in the distance, on the McDonough road, was the rear of Howard's column, the gun-barrels glistening in the sun, the white-topped wagons stretching away to the south; and right before us the Fourteenth Corps, marching steadily and rapidly, with a cheery look and swinging pace, that made light of the thousand miles that lay between us and Richmond. Some band, by accident, struck up the anthem of "John Brown's Body"; the men caught up the strain, and never before or since have I heard the chorus of "Glory, glory, hallelujah!" done with more spirit, or in better harmony of time and place.
I had an ancestor who fought under Sherman at Vicksburg.
>>217666372They did a wee in the water
>>217664662>secede >bombard Fort Sumter with cannonfire>invade the North>starts losing>OH SHERMAN PLEASE THINK OF THE POOR INNOCENT NEGROS IN ATLANTA PLEASE STOP TEARING UP OUR RAILROADS
>>217666518"After the fighting was over, it was clear that the Confederate Army was at high tide when it fell against the stone walls and federal trenches on the crest of cemetery hill."
