The second o’clock of “Gone with the Wind”, which is almost the romantic romantic civil war epic that won the Ten Ten Academy, is a large image of hell. “The sky rained death”, reads the screen. General William Tikomsieh Sherman and the army of his union brutally took Atlanta during an arduous campaign, at a combined cost of about seventy -five thousand victims. Scarlett Ohara, south of white rich, picks up its way out of the city, passing through the remnants of the scattered vehicles and men while the eagles hover in its sky. All the houses of farms you see have been reduced to charred ruins.
Just a farm that survived Sherman’s attack. Scarlett opens the door to find her father, but it is clear from his empty eyes that he is a broken man. The house, too, is just a shell of itself. Yanxiz used it as a headquarters, and they stole everything they did not burn: livestock, clothes, carpets, and even the rosary of Scarlett’s mother. The slaves also left – only three of a hundred. Scarlett, starving, wandering behind the house and trying to eat radish from the ground, looking for any food scraps that remain.
This scene is typical in the way Sherman’s march is filmed via Georgia. In the fall of 1864, Sherman took sixty thousand Union soldiers about two hundred and fifty miles from Atlanta to the ocean, and burned a wide range of state along the way. Parts of Atlanta were demolished on the ground, and Safana became a “Christmas gift” of Sherman to Ibrahim Lincoln. The campaign is remembered as a way to destroy, a comprehensive war against white civilians in the south.
However, for many worshipers across the state who left their homes and followed Sherman to the sea, the march meant freedom. They had no freedom of luxurious legislative proposals and presidential advertisements, including men who discuss signing documents. Instead, military liberation – any chaotic endeavor, is full of dangers, fears and betrayal, and those who sometimes forget about accounts on how liberation occurs. This is the central narration of the new Bennett Book Book, “”Somewhere“Parts of this story have already been listed, in parts and pieces, in broader works about the civil war, liberation or march itself. But Parten may be the first to make Freeedpeple the only axis, claiming that they were necessary for the meaning of the march.
Sherman’s march in Atlanta, the Railways and Manufacturing Center that fell on his army in early September 1864. Sherman was slowly fought on his way from Chatanuja, using a series of small skirmishes and maneuvers that were on his way south. In July, he won a group of major victories near the city, but then his momentum stopped. Finally, he managed to withdraw another maneuver, and go to Atlanta to cut off its southern contacts. The Confederation witnessed the result and soon Skidadad. Sherman wrote: “Atlanta is ours”, “He won some extent.”
Sherman’s presence in Georgia, like the presence of the Union Army anywhere in the south, had a erosion on slavery. Once his Atlanta army took, the city became “a haven for freed people from all over the region,” Parten writes, “With men and women flowing from the surrounding countryside.” In fact, worshipers had escaped to the federation of union since the beginning of the war – Republicans in Congress have been setting policies to make them free. Within months of the beginning of the war, the Congress ordered the army that the soldiers did not bear the responsibility for returning the fleeing slaves; Shortly later, the first confiscation law said that the southerners had lost the service of any worshipers who were employed against the United States. Under this framework, no voluntary slaves were free to federation lines. The policy has liberated tens of thousands of worshipers during the next year, while the union stumbled on the edges of the Confederation. On the sea islands in South Carolina, where the union created a head on the beach only seven months after the war, white farmers fled the nearby army while about ten thousand slaves remained. “O son, no, there is no t’under”, it was said that one of the mothers said when I heard the defender, “Dat Yanke comes to excite freedom.”
Soon after, there was more liberation along the Mississippi River. In the spring of 1862, the Ulysses Grant Army advanced from the north, while the David Varajut amphibious operation came from the south in a severe movement around Vesburg. Full control of the Mississippi will not come for another year, but in the meantime, the union captured some of the largest cotton and sugar farms in the south, which was home to more than a hundred and fifty thousand people who were worshiped. With the realization that the first confiscation law is no longer sufficient to deal with the situation on the ground, the Republicans soon passed the second confiscation law, which provides for the immediate liberation of the slaves owned by the rebels in the areas occupied by the Union’s army. Practically, this was a declaration that the goal of the union was the global liberation in the separate states – as Lincoln explained with the declaration of liberation after several months.
With the soldiers now allowing the temptation of worshipers to their lines and black men who are able to recruit, the Union’s army has officially become an army of liberation, absorbing larger numbers of freedom seekers while moving in the south. In early 1864, shortly before the start of his campaign in Georgia, Sherman took twenty thousand soldiers in a single -month march across the Mississippi state, lives off the ground and punished the great farmers with the army. “Last year, they could save their slaves,” Sherman wrote as he started the march, “but now it is too late – all the powers of the land could not restore their slaves more than their dead grandparents.” Up to eight thousand slaves from the fields to follow the Sherman’s forces.
By the time Sherman and his men walked through Georgia later that year, it was clear that slave people would follow wherever they went. The soldiers really did not have a choice in this matter. However, to the extent that they had an option, it should be noted that in the presidential elections that occurred a week before Atlanta, Lincoln chose eighty -six percent of Sherman’s forces. These soldiers knew what they were in their favor – a platform to follow the war to its end and secure a constitutional amendment to cancel slavery – and wrote a house to tell their friends and family to vote in its favor as well. One of the soldiers said to his girlfriend: “If McChellan gets the reins, he will get peace soon from Abe, but by allowing them to obtain their slaves.” Then we can fight them again within ten years. But my old father called her, and she always settled.
After taking Atlanta, Sherman faced the issue of where you go from there. Most people may have followed the Confederate Army, which was retreating to Alabama. But Sherman was determined to take a decisive step that would end the war. “If the north can walk an army across the south, it is interesting that the north can prevail in this competition,” he said.
Sherman’s forces left the city in mid -November and began to move through a series of provinces in the middle of Georgia, where about one hundred and fifty thousand slaves were held before the war. Soon the continuous flow became one of those who seek freedom that makes their way to the army. Parten also indicates, although joining the march was never a direct choice between slavery and freedom. Sherman, more than many other northern officers, resisted ethnic equality. He wrote a few months before the start of the march to Safana, “The Negro is not a white man.” He was happy to take on black men who were able to the body, sometimes pressed them in service, but he escaped from the army policy and avoids recruiting them as soldiers. Instead, put them in leading roles, responsible for the broken manual work of removing the drops that were dropped and recorded records through muddy stains. A union officer suspects that the work was “in many cases greater than what it was exposed to its former owners.”
Perhaps all black men were not enthusiastic about such a task, and he was not necessarily happy with the possibility of separating from their families, which Sherman did not have the intention of support. Sometimes these family members remained behind them, and sometimes they struggled to follow up in the aftermath of the army, in an attempt to stay safe and secure food during a march of several miles a day. There were no good options. However, it seems that a total of nearly twenty thousand people are followed by Sherman’s army to Savana in late December, and it is impossible to determine the number of others who have joined at least part of the road.
If there is a consensus among the union’s soldiers that slavery needs to be terminated, there is a much less agreement on what black freedom should mean and how black should be treated. Many soldiers can vote in favor of Lincoln, the struggle for cancellation, and they still misuse or harassment at least some black people who were faced throughout the south. The search teams in Sherman sometimes targeted the slave cabin in addition to the houses of farms, and they often proved that they are fully prepared to threaten slaves (a gun holding the temple, for example) to get information about the location of farm food, livestock and money that may be removed. Some of this massive frustration, as the soldiers were out of their pain and losses on any outlet, but often this was also a clear racist resentment.
The most terrible accident in the entire march included Sherman named Jefferson C. Davis, who had nothing to do with the Confederate President but seems to have shared some of his views about blacks. When the Davis Ebinzer Kreik forces, about twenty miles northwest of Safana, crossed the floating bridges that were pulled before the black refugees behind the army were able to reach these refugees – most women, children and adults – to try Ford Al -Khor alone. Some of them were killed or worshiped at the hands of the next Confederate Knights, and others drowned in cold water. Davis’s behavior in Abnzer Kreik soon leaked to the northern press, because of his angry conscience within his village, and these reports contributed to the fears of the Lincoln administration that caused “Sherman”. criminal The Negro hates “during the march.
