The next big event in Milledgeville's old legislative chamber will be where locals gather there for a commemorative "Dinner With Uncle Billy" with 19th-century fare, finished with buttermilk pie (never heard of that). I wonder if you want your steak well done, can you get it "Shermanized?"
In addition, there will be an original drama created from the words of those who were here when Sherman, including rank-and-file soldiers, shopkeepers, slaves and even Sherman himself, noted for his usual unsmiling self.
Amy Wright is director of the capital museum in Milledgeville where this will take place. She has a doctorate plus five generations of personal history from the area.
She was told while a girl that Sherman's men ransacked houses, stole property and set fires. It was an unusually cold winter and the bummers took or destroyed harvests "and there was no making up a crop." People were left to starve. Animals that couldn't be carried away were simply killed.
Mean Old Yankees --Old Secesh
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