When Georgia Howled: Sherman on the March | GPB Documentaries

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When Georgia Howled: Sherman on the March | GPB Documentaries


FOR 37 WEEKS IN 1864, GENERAL WILLIAM T. SHERMAN MADE GEORGIA HIS BATTLEGROUND. Georgia Public Broadcasting and the Atlanta History Center have partnered to produce the gripping new documentary “When Georgia Howled: Sherman on the March” on GPB Television. The program is the companion documentary to their Emmy-winning collaboration “37…

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  1. Hey everyone! Before we dip into this history of our Nation,let’s make sure that we all understand that Republicans and Democrats have different views and political goals,views, and values that we see today! Just because you saw a post that you liked,or you decided to listen to your professor five minutes before class ended,doesn’t necessarily make your opinion irrelevant,or respected,but please keep an open mind while discussing topics related in our history! I scratch my head at both sides on here with people saying things that are clearly wrong and hearsay. I’m from south Mississippi. I’m not on either side. It’s a horrible war that could’ve ended before it even started.

  2. Why did this "documentary" sanitize the purposeful decision of the North to totally destroy everything in the South, to carry the war to the civilians? Military history students learn that it was the North's policy of "Total Warfare" to destroy everything, which was the first time in military history that this was officially enforced. Never once did this "documentary" use the term or even elude towards what was the North's goal and objective, to destroy everything like Barbarians would do.
    I believe the Russians tried the same thing in the Ukraine recently.

  3. As far as I’m concerned, Grant was a murderer and sent to Humboldt county California Eureka to wipe out peaceful friendly Indians He killed hundreds. In the 60’s I met some of the ancestors that Grant slaughtered telling me the truth of what happened. He was a crappy president and drunk most of the time.

  4. The only thing I would add is showing how Sherman's Georgia campaign was similar to Grant's Mississippi campaign–specifically Vicksburg.

    Oddly enough, Sherman afterwards confessed to Grant that he thought the venture foolish. Then he mirrors aspects of it and historians consider Sherman a genius without mentioning Grant. While Sherman deserves praise, and blame for that matter, on his campaign, I think Grant's decision to strike out from Tennessee and head to MS had a major impact on Sherman's later campaign. If Grant never went to MS, then Sherman probably would have never had the blueprint on how to conquer Georgia.

  5. When the United States bombed Japan we didn't destroy their farms. The Union under Lincoln's orders left nothing. They were starving and had very little to rebuild with. Speaks volumes about what kind of people they were. Nothing honorable about that. I also read that Lincoln was kicked in the head by a mule while plowing. So he had Petit Mal seizures. He would go to a room and sit and stare for hours at a time, maybe days. So I question how much Lincoln was really in charge. I have such tremendous empathy for Lincoln as a child, his father was a unempathetic man just horrid and reckless with his children's lives. Maybe that's why Lincoln was a doting father. Boone and Crockett didn't treat their children the way Lincoln's father treated them. Really sad, don't know whether his seizures caused his depression or his creepy father did.

  6. They had cut the supplies to the south, so personally I think Sherman was a mad man. My relatives fought for the Union, but after seeing the way they treated people after the War. The country just became more corrupt, didn't change a thing. People on here pontificating, your relatives probably weren't even on this Continent when it happened.

  7. There was no need for the South to go to war they could have kept everything they had without a war always seek peace war brings nothing but misery of course war profiteers want war because they don't have to do the fighting or there kids

  8. I'm sure millions of slaves felt the intense emotions of the people in Atlanta continuously for decades before that terrible war so those who experienced the relatively short trauma of war got to know how slaves felt for hundreds of years.

  9. A Southerner complaining about what somebody did to their people is the most ironic and idiotic thing I have ever heard. The North could have done a lot worse to the South instead they went with reunification and built the South back up. That's why I hate the damn Confederate flag. Slavery was brought here by England and was ended because of the sacrifice of many men only 70 years after America became a country. Yet we still now are dealing with the consequences and America gets the heat for slavery that was already here before we even became a country. There were many founding fathers that wanted to outlaw slavery in the Constitution but knew it would keep the southern colonies from joining.

  10. Carie's son would die in world war 1, she had seen the bombardment of Atlanta, but her son would suffer the horrors of the first world war and would die in it.

  11. Hood and Johnston blaming each other for the loss of Atlanta was pointless. Sherman had a powerful army that was always going to take the city. One could possibly have prevented that slightly longer than the other.

  12. Sherman's march to the sea through Georgia was a classic repetition of a medieval chevauchee, commonly used by the English during the Hundred Years War in France and by the Poles in their numerous wars with Russia, Sweden, the Teutonic Knights Order and the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans.

  13. All of my ancestors on my father's side of the family who were alive during that time, fought for the Union. Three of them were attached to infantry units that were part of Sherman's march to the sea.

  14. I read this book once, set during the Civil War, that tells the tale of Sherman's rampage through Georgia from the point of view of the citizens of that state. He was even referred to as "the new Attila". I also remember the main character was little girl who at one point kicked him in the shin or leg, and he wasn't angry. She got to talk with the general himself, and she left with no hard feelings.

  15. So much of this "history" regarding the slaves is wishful thinking but not reality. Its a great documentary but I dont know to trust the info based upon the mis info in here regarding the slaves.

  16. General William Tecumseh Sherman was a brilliant tactician… and his campaign through Georgia broke the confederacy back & will to fight… absolutely brilliant.

  17. What people in Atlanta didn't realize why Johnston didn't attack… When he asked for reinforcements. Jefferson's response was "There are NO reinforcements". Probably a big surprise for the unschooled… the commanding Generals on both sides; many were classmates at West Point

  18. 22:48 wow! That guy was a hater. A bunch of ladies were in a factory making garments for the Confederate army and so he had them shipped up on train to Indiana where they were left for themselves and we have no idea what happened to them LOL. He probably had to go work in a cat house

  19. The losing side always complains about the conduct of the winners. Let’s not pretend that Georgia and southern soldiers were perfect gentlemen during the war. War sucks and Georgia found that out like everyone else.