My great aunt was 5 years old when Selma fell and told us young boys about the family hiding the silver in the well to keep Feds from stealing it. That was in 1952-we were 8, she was 92. And I remember driving through Georgia in the late 1940's-early 1950's and when we passed a burnt out house, my mother would point to the chimneys left standing in the field and say, "Those are Sherman's smokestacks."
As for Franklin and Nashville, that has to be laid at the feet of General Hood. I drove over to Tennessee with my two young boys for a giant reenactment of Franklin, Spring Hill and Nashville...must have been about the year 1998 with 13,000 reenactors in the field and over 800 cavalry--western reenactments always drew a lot of horses. The Southern lines went in at Franklin with bands playing..."the tooters and the shooters" as one diariest said. The sad thing is Spring Hill could have ended it. And in the end the objective of the offensive, Nashville, was not worth it. (Trivia, Rhett Butler, after he decided the cause was worth it, abandoned his smuggling ship and was wounded heroically at Franklin in GWTW).
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