New Georgia License Plate Marks 150th Anniversary Of Sherman's March

[Ichingcarpenter]

New Georgia License Plate Marks 150th Anniversary Of Sherman's March




The state of Georgia last week began offering a new version of its vehicle license plate featuring the Confederate battle flag. Sponsored by the Georgia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (to whom a portion of the purchase price and annual registration fees will go), the revised design has many people inside the state and out howling mad.

In response to the outcry, Georgia SCV commander Jack Bridwell asked, "What's the big deal?" Echoing Bridwell's explanation that "the design is just people trying to show who they are and trying to be proud of their heritage," Sons of Confederate Veterans spokesman Ray McBerry invited other groups to do the same:

"We believe that all people ought to be able to celebrate their history and their heritage, and that includes Southerners. We did anticipate that there could be some folks who would not like that, but we encourage them to go and make application for their own specialty plates."

Now, a little known organization is taking him up on the offer. The group, calling itself The American People, is sponsoring a license plate to mark the 150th anniversary of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea.

After capturing the South's vital manufacturing center and rail hub at Atlanta, Sherman's troops marched southeast to Savannah leaving a swath of ruin in their wake. Between November 15th and December 21st, 1864, Sherman more than accomplished his objective to "create havoc and destruction of all resources that would be beneficial to the enemy." Sherman's brilliant campaign (or what the Sons of Confederate Veterans brand "atrocities and war crimes&quot hastened the end of the Confederacy and with it the enslavement of four million Americans.





http://crooksandliars.com/2014/02/new-georgia-license-plate-marks-shermans-march

[rdharma]

1. I love it!

The Sherman plate that is!

[upaloopa]

2. In my estimation we should think before we

jump to support what Sherman did. At one point a large number of ex slaves drown because Sherman's troops refused to help them. His troops were not saints.
Today we might call them terrorists.

[rdharma]

4. Sherman ordered and was responsible for that?

Gee!

[upaloopa]

7. Hundreds of ex slaves were following Sherman's march.

They were crossing a bridge and after his troops got across the bridge collapsed with many ex slaves on it.
Sherman ordered his men to keep moving and not to stop and help.

[rdharma]

8. I'm pretty familiar with Civil War history.

I've never heard that story. Do you have a source?

[Go Vols]

11. What I could find

So as Davis's men approached the 165-feet-wide and 10-feet-deep swollen and icy Ebenezer Creek on December 3, the general envisioned more than merely another mass pontoon-bridge crossing. He saw an opportunity to rid himself of the refugees in a manner he thought would be subtle enough to elude censure. Controversy might follow, but he was used to that.
.........
Though what happened once Davis's troops had all crossed remains in dispute, it seems fairly certain that Davis had the pontoon bridge dismantled immediately, leaving the refugees stranded on the creek's far bank. Kerr wrote that as soon as the Federals reached their destination, 'orders were given to the engineers to take up the pontoons and not let a negro cross.'
........

Kerr saw Wheeler's cavalry 'closely pressing' the refugees from the rear. Unarmed and helpless, the former slaves 'raised their hands and implored from the corps commander the protection they had been promised,' Kerr wrote. '…[but] the prayer was in vain and, with cries of anguish and despair, men, women and children rushed by hundreds into the turbid stream and many were drowned before our eyes.'

http://www.historynet.com/betrayal-at-ebenezer-creek.htm

However, it was his actions during the Ebenezer Creek passing and his ruthlessness toward the freed slaves, that causes his legacy to be clouded in continued controversy. As Sherman's army proceeded on the March to the Sea toward Savannah, Georgia, on December 9, 1864, Davis ordered a pontoon bridge removed before the African-American refugees following his corps could cross the creek. Several hundred were captured by the Confederate cavalry or drowned in the creek, attempting to escape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_C._Davis

[upaloopa]

13. Yes get history channel of Sherman's March

[msanthrope]

10. I'd love to read a cite of that...nt

[upaloopa]

14. History Channel Sherman's March

[msanthrope]

16. History Channel? Really? Were they taking a break from the Nazis and the occult, and

crop circles?

[upaloopa]

17. Look up thread

If you get over your self some day you may learn something but I doubt it .
I never quite understand why people come to this board just to belittle other people.

[msanthrope]

18. You realize that wasn't Sherman, right, but General Jefferson C. Davis, and of course, Wheeler's

men on the Confederate side. So you have the wrong Union general, and of course, you forget that it was the Confederates who drove the ex-slaves into the river.

[upaloopa]

19. You win go claim your prize

Of course you knew nothing about it till today
And you make your own interpretation of the events
Let's put each other on ignore

[rdharma]

20. So, your claim is false ..... and you get mad when others point it out?

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Wow!

[Enthusiast]

24. +1 a whole bunch!

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. I think its effective to the confederate battle flag plate

who are celebrating traitors, racists, murderers, and slavers

Don't forget Andersonville was in Georgia either.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. They (the rebels) wanted war...

and they got it.

[geek tragedy]

12. some people, you just can't reach nt

[theHandpuppet]

3. Was your ancestor a Georgia Civil War Veteran?

I salute them as the forgotten "Southern heritage".

http://www.glynngen.com/military/civilwar/USCT.htm

U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) Military Service Records, Georgia
(Above link) This is a partial transcription of the muster rolls found at Ancestry.com for persons who were either born or living in Coastal Georgia

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Alternative caption for plate: "Tough love but we earned it". nt

[pinboy3niner]

15. They should offer a third option...

...for Carol Burnett fans.

[idendoit]

21. This is hilarious. The sons of a bunch of losers commemorating an epic loss.

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[BBR Esq]

22. Good.

Now everyone is angry.

[REP]

23. Seems to be a joke

From the linked piece:

(The above is obviously a joke. And a horrible idea, for the same reason that President Ulysses Grant rejected a proposal to paint a mural inside the Capitol Dome of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. "No, gentlemen, it won't do. No power on earth will make me agree to your proposal." Grant declared. "I will not humiliate General Lee or our Southern friends in depicting their humiliation and then celebrating the event in the nation's capitol.&quot

Grant, for all his faults, had some class.