** Macon, Georgia, was a major manufacturing center for the Confederacy.
** Sherman did not burn Savannah. He got cotton as tribute.
** The cavalry of Joseph Wheeler were the only real resistance Sherman faced on his way to Savannah.
** Confederates had placed torpedoes (artillery shells) on the roads into Savannah rigged to blow up is stepped upon. Confederate prisoners were sent ahead of Union troops to explode them one way or another.
** Sherman burned the Howell Cobb plantation near Milledgeville, Georgia. On the night of November 22, 1864, on his March to the Sea, Gen. Sherman camped there. Upon learning it was owned by Howell Cobb, former U.S. cabinet member, Congressman and now an important man in the Confederacy, he ordered its total destruction except for the slave quarters.
** Runaway slaves following Sherman's army were often used as pioneers in road construction.
** There is a double-barreled cannon in Athens, Georgia.
--Old Secesh
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