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Sherman burned down Atlanta before starting his March to the Sea.
A 1955 study of the sixty-mile area from Covington to Milledgeville found that of seventy-two houses built before Sherman's march, twenty-two were still standing in 1955; nine others had been torn down after the Civil War" (Soldiers Passion for Order, 551)
T. He was Colonel Sherman Tecumseh Potter.
He pulled the rail ties up and bent them. They were called Sherman's hairpins.
William Tecumseh Sherman has written: 'Sherman's Civil War' -- subject(s): History, United States Civil War, 1861-1865