Mugshot of Atlanta's I-85 arsonist suspect

[I B Hankering]

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[Munchmasterman]

Another stupid post by queen douche-bag.

Arson? During war?

He was just kicking the squatters off the right-of-way.

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

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[Yssup Rider]

Poor IBMassa... stil butt hurt about the Civil War.

And the 13th Amendment to the fucking constitution.

[I B Hankering]

UPDATE: Atlanta PD believe the suspected I-85 arsonist is heading east to Savannah. Please be on the lookout for the following vehicle.

[andymarksman]

Yeah, arsons in Savannah....

[instfixer]

General Sherman upon reaching Savannah sent a message to that city:
By now you have heard what I did to the great city of Atlanta- I burned it down to the ground.
If you do not surrender, I will do to you what I did to Atlanta.

President Lincoln was a wussie, he insisted on no treason trials

[JD Barleycorn]

Don't know why Munchkin is upset, that was funny. Nazi Andy is not funny at all and an attempt to hijack a thread. The sooner he goes to Spandau the better.

[I B Hankering]

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Deportation of Roswell Mill Women



In July 1864 during the Atlanta campaign General William T. Sherman ordered the approximately 400 Roswell mill workers, mostly women, arrested as traitors and shipped as prisoners to the North with their c@@@dren. There is little evidence that more than a few of the women ever returned home.

As the Union forces approached Atlanta in the early summer of 1864, almost all the members of the founding families of Roswell—aristocrats from the Georgia coast, most of them owners and/or stockholders of the Roswell Manufacturing Company mills—had fled. The remaining residents were mostly the mill workers and their families. The two cotton mills and a woolen mill continued to operate, producing cloth for Confederate uniforms and other much-needed military supplies, such as rope, canvas, and tent cloth.

On July 5, seeking a way to cross the Chattahoochee River and gain access to Atlanta, Brigadier General Kenner Garrard's cavalry began the Union's twelve-day occupation of Roswell, which was undefended. The next day Garrard reported to Sherman that he had discovered the mills in full operation and had proceeded to destroy them, and that about 400 women had been employed in the mills. On July 7 Sherman replied that the destruction of the mills "meets my entire approval." He ordered that the owners and employees be arrested and charged with treason, elaborating, "I repeat my orders that you arrest all people, male and female, connected with those factories, no matter what the clamor, and let them foot it, under guard, to Marietta, whence I will send them by [railroad] cars, to the North. . . . Let them [the women] take along their c@@@dren and clothing, providing they have a means of hauling or you can spare them."

The women, their c@@@dren, and the few men, most either too young or too old to fight, were transported by wagon to Marietta and imprisoned in the Georgia Military Institute, by then abandoned. During the week while the women were held in Marietta, several Union soldiers allegedly committed acts of assault against their captives. Afterwards, with several days' rations, the women and c@@@dren were loaded into boxcars that proceeded through Chattanooga, Tennessee, and after a stopover in Nashville, Tennessee, headed to Louisville, Kentucky, the final destination for many of the mill workers. Others were sent across the Ohio River into Indiana.

First housed and fed in a Louisville refugee hospital, the women later took what menial jobs and living arrangements could be found. Those in Indiana struggled to survive, many settling near the river, where eventually mills provided employment. Unless husbands had been transported with the women or had been imprisoned nearby, there was little probability of a return to Roswell, so the remaining women began to marry and bear c@@@dren.

The tragedy, widely publicized at the time, with outrage expressed in northern as well as southern presses, was virtually forgotten over the next century. Only in the 1980s did a few writers begin to research and tell the story. Even then, the individual identities and fates of the women remained unknown. (Wiki)

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

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sherman really stepped on that one. he would have been better off destroying the mills and leaving the workers alone.

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by Munchmasterman

Arson? During war?

Yes, Tecumseh Sherman was an arsonist during war time. He with his troops burned cities & towns during his march to Savannah.

[DSK]

Originally Posted by instfixer

General Sherman upon reaching Savannah sent a message to that city:
By now you have heard what I did to the great city of Atlanta- I burned it down to the ground.
If you do not surrender, I will do to you what I did to Atlanta.

President Lincoln was a wussie, he insisted on no treason trials

I'm with Lincoln..bygones be bygones...the South suffered enough.

[instfixer]

I took ROTC Military history during college.
Sherman troops had a 60 mile wide path of utter destruction.
Even the steel railroad rails were destroyed by putting them in a big bonfire and then when the middle was red hot the troops would twist the rails around big trees-these were called Sherman's toothpicks.
Total war it was called.
The plan was to cut the South into three pieces. First the Union took control of the Mississippi River. Then the South was further cut by Sherman's march to the Sea.
After Savannah then Sherman's troops marched onto Columbia (I think). The local residents gave Union troops whiskey - BIG MISTAKE The city center of Columbia was burned down as a result of drunken behavior.
Another Union general (Grant I think) was burning the heart out of Virginia and that is when Robert E Lee gave up.

[instfixer]

Originally Posted by DSK

I'm with Lincoln..bygones be bygones...the South suffered enough.

The South only had one friend in high places that people would listen to, and that was Lincoln.
When Booth killed Lincoln that sealed the South's fate.

[Revenant]

Strange as it is for me to say it, the Tranny Fuckee's OP was pretty funny. Wish I had thought of it.

[IIFFOFRDB]

Originally Posted by Revenant

Strange as it is for me to say it, the Tranny Fuckee's OP was pretty funny. Wish I had thought of it.

You Carpet Baggers are weird...