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Sherman’s March: How the History Channel Cleanses History

October 24th, 2007

It was just over 142 years ago when General William Tecumseh Sherman burned Columbia, South Carolina and sent a battle-hardened military unit toward nearby Sumter, presumably to do the same. My then 16-year-old great-grandfather, Andrew Jackson “Jack” Moses, rode out to defend his hometown, along with other teenagers, invalids, old men, and the disabled and […]