When Sherman Rode Into Columbia, S.C., an Escaped Union POW Handed Him a Note. Here's the Words.

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Life on the Civil War Research Trail

Life on the Civil War Research Trail

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@lakemurray7239
@lakemurray7239 4 ай бұрын
My great-grandfather was a 14 year old guard at the POW camp in Columbia. He died in 1943 and was one of the last surviving veterans in SC. I wish I could have known him.
@anotheryoutubechannel4809
@anotheryoutubechannel4809 4 ай бұрын
Wow. Very cool.
@davedammann741
@davedammann741 4 ай бұрын
Bless his heart...😮
@Kenneth-c4j
@Kenneth-c4j 3 ай бұрын
Wow! I'll bet that he had some fascinating stories to tell.
@patrickbrinkmeier2691
@patrickbrinkmeier2691 Ай бұрын
Wow...I'm 45 now and my Great Grandparents were all dead by the late 80's / very early 90's. My last grandparent just passed in January of this year. That was my Dad's father who lived till the age of 92. I remember seeing my Great Grandmother that was my Mom's fathers mom when I was around 9 or 10 in 1989/90 right before she died and she told me the story of my Great, Great, Great, Uncle Toby. He was from Clarksburg, W.V. and he had served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Being from the far Western part of the state of VA at the time along the border near Ohio most of the loyalists were in the Western part of VA so when West Virginia broke away from VA during the Civil War my uncle answered the call to preserve the Union. My Great Grandma told me that he was wounded at Antietam and then at The Battle of Saylors Creek which was a few days before Lee surrendered nearby at Appomattox. He also fought at Gettysburg yet despite his regiment suffering terrible losses on Day 2 he managed to avoid being wounded there. She said he always had to use a cane after the war. She also said in the late 1800'sand early 1900's he was known in Clarksburg because young boys would see him hobbling along the streets with his cane and that kids would try to jump out of bushes and scare him. He knew he couldn't chase them so he just started whacking the kids with his wooden cane and they quickly stopped doing that. He died in the later 1920's of old age when he was around 87 or 88 years old. I remember My Great Grandma said he had been born in 1842 and that when she was born in 1894 she remembers early childhood memories of meeting and talking to him at family events and said he always gave the children in the family a quarter when he saw them ( Keep in mind a quarter in 1905 had the buying power of almost a 10 dollar bill in todays money ) so the kids could get lots of candy with it. Supposedly my Uncle Toby also shot a man in a duel in the late 1903. The man was a Confederate Sympathizer who started giving my Uncle Toby a very hard time upon hearing my Uncle fought for the North. Uncle Toby was a supervisor at a factory that made glass and a new transient man they hired heard he fought for the North and this man apparently claimed to have served in the Confederacy and had a chip on his shoulder. They agreed to settle it with a pistol duel on main street on a Sunday. My Uncle and the man he shot were both in their early to mid 60's when this happened. Apparently my Uncle wasn't even arrested over this. He was working at the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company as a supervisor and the plant manager apparently told the sheriff and deputies what happened, slid some money to them, and that was the end of it. The man my uncle shot was hit in the lower chest /upper stomach and passed away.
@cpklapper
@cpklapper 5 ай бұрын
My paternal grandmother’s maternal grandmother’s maiden name was Caroline Maria Sherman, a distant cousin of the General and his brother, the Senator. Thank you for this touching story of our Cousin Cump.
@ukulelemikeleii
@ukulelemikeleii 5 ай бұрын
Scraps and bits of paper were the emails of the 1860s!
@jonncockrell3606
@jonncockrell3606 4 ай бұрын
The telegraph had made it possible for information to travel much quicker than before.
@brianmcfarland4854
@brianmcfarland4854 6 ай бұрын
Byers was a first cousin of my great-grandmother, they were both born in 1838 in western Pennsylvania. My father remembered when he was a young boy an elderly man came to visit relatives in the area. This was Byers come to visit family where he had been born near Pulaski, PA, probably in the mid- to late 20's.
@georgeborkenhagen4281
@georgeborkenhagen4281 6 ай бұрын
Amazing!
@alanaadams7440
@alanaadams7440 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing your story
@joellenbroetzmann9053
@joellenbroetzmann9053 5 ай бұрын
As a person who had folks on both sides of the war, including a slave owner, an abolitionist, a slave, and a POW in Andersonville, every one of them a grandparent in my lines, I full well know war IS hell.
@smcm4588
@smcm4588 5 ай бұрын
Allowing 20 years family growth.. 1838, 58, 78, 98, 1918, 38, 58, 78, 98, 2018.. =180 years. A grtgrand (and grt1st cousin) ma born in 1838.. ... you would have to have been born in 1898.. and you would be 126 years old today. Please re-calc the quantity of 'Greats' you refer to in your family.
@Gimmee3Steps
@Gimmee3Steps 5 ай бұрын
Cool! I grew up just north of Pittsburgh and used to fish the river near Pulaski. It’s not a very big town at all.
@michaelstahlberg9392
@michaelstahlberg9392 2 ай бұрын
Swedish civil war buff here. Much appreciate the quote from Sherman's memoirs. Very vivid descriptions.
@jimdecamp7204
@jimdecamp7204 6 ай бұрын
The lesson here is, if you can't be useful, at least be pleasant company.
@anotheryoutubechannel4809
@anotheryoutubechannel4809 4 ай бұрын
😂 yep.
@kevinpritchard3592
@kevinpritchard3592 5 ай бұрын
WOW, that is an excellent piece of history brought back to us. Thank you for your excellent work.
@mikemcmanus116
@mikemcmanus116 6 ай бұрын
Great story. I love learning of the personal accounts of those who participated.
@inyobill
@inyobill 4 ай бұрын
Sherman's (and even more Grant's) memoirs are well worth reading.
@HarryWHill-GA
@HarryWHill-GA 5 ай бұрын
Thank you for that video. The American Civil War was, mercifully, the last conflict where I know I had relatives on both sides of a battle.
@jonncockrell3606
@jonncockrell3606 4 ай бұрын
Lucky. I had relatives on both sides of the World Wars as I, an American, am a mix of English,Irish and German. Some had come to America by the time I was born. But I didn't understand the stories until much later in life and they were gone.
@HarryWHill-GA
@HarryWHill-GA 4 ай бұрын
@@jonncockrell3606 We all get here by different paths. I only have to live another 10 years or so to have both sides of my family here for 400+ years. We were the original EuroTrash, thrown out before the rush. The only good thing was that land prices were low when they arrived.
@PAMELAPORTER-ci7mr
@PAMELAPORTER-ci7mr 4 ай бұрын
​@@HarryWHill-GA Same with my father's side, but I prefer to view them as explorers & entrepreneurs. ; )
@barbarataylor8101
@barbarataylor8101 4 ай бұрын
And so the U.S. chooses to take down the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. We will never forget.
@HarryWHill-GA
@HarryWHill-GA 4 ай бұрын
@@barbarataylor8101 Not the US, the current US administration. Elections have consequences. Vote like your life depends on it. It may. Your freedom certainly does.
@billgrewe8340
@billgrewe8340 5 ай бұрын
Great story. It traveled well. All the way to to 2024 with its magic intact.
@jonBrown-k4p
@jonBrown-k4p 5 ай бұрын
great reading Ron, you took us there...
@abelincoln3261
@abelincoln3261 5 ай бұрын
I can't help but wonder how easily insanity and criminality and valor are easily combined in war !
@mandoguy726
@mandoguy726 4 ай бұрын
If you mean that Sherman was a traitorous horrible person and a war criminal then I agree.
@johnhallett5846
@johnhallett5846 17 күн бұрын
@@mandoguy726 wah wah wah eat it loser
@timswope8423
@timswope8423 5 ай бұрын
Confederate states burned cotton bales when union forces entered southern cities to prevent union from confiscation and sale of bales (10k).
@TerryV06
@TerryV06 4 ай бұрын
With disastrous results…. Aka Atlanta and Richmond
@hubertwalters4300
@hubertwalters4300 3 ай бұрын
​@@TerryV06 Well that's war,when the enemy is advancing into your country, you destroy everything that could be of use to the enemy.
@TerryV06
@TerryV06 3 ай бұрын
@@hubertwalters4300 very true.. somehow the blame has been shifted to ravaging Union troops though.
@thomasfort2051
@thomasfort2051 3 ай бұрын
That’s BS . Atlanta and Columbia were occupied by Federal troops and were burned as the troops left. Troops were also sent out to burn surrounding civilian homes. Funny how you twist that the Southerners burned their own cities and homes.
@thomasfort2051
@thomasfort2051 3 ай бұрын
@@TerryV06 Foraging = robbery , What do you think the civilian population had left to eat when the Federal Troops robbed or destroyed all the food, plus the shelter?
@waynefoster6964
@waynefoster6964 3 ай бұрын
I find this song very interesting and brings it closer to home for me. It mentions Resaca Georgia. That's where my ancestor Pvt. William White (118th Ohio) was wounded and eventually died of his wounds. He was part of Gen. Scofield failed attack. Thank you for sharing that story!
@douglasslist3200
@douglasslist3200 6 ай бұрын
Great piece. Very much helps to bring history into realism.
@josetomatostv5718
@josetomatostv5718 5 ай бұрын
Wow. I was rapt! What a story! Thank you!!!
@jarredsdad
@jarredsdad 5 ай бұрын
Excellent! Thank you!
@alanaadams7440
@alanaadams7440 Ай бұрын
That's a great story thank you
@DavidBenner-cy4zl
@DavidBenner-cy4zl 5 ай бұрын
One of my great great grand fathers marched with Sherman to the Sea. Indiana artillery attached to an Ohio infantry regiment. Wounded five times.
@utoobia
@utoobia 4 ай бұрын
How many civilian homes did he burn?
@mulvey0731
@mulvey0731 4 ай бұрын
That’s too bad
@mandoguy726
@mandoguy726 4 ай бұрын
Are you proud of this?
@DavidBenner-cy4zl
@DavidBenner-cy4zl 4 ай бұрын
@@mandoguy726 he did what any "good" Democrat or progressive would do.
@michaelfritts6249
@michaelfritts6249 4 ай бұрын
My gg grandpa lost his eye in the Battle of Perryville. One brother died in Resaca. Another was with General Sherman to the end. They beat the traitors to our Great Nation!!
@paulginsberg6942
@paulginsberg6942 5 ай бұрын
Wonderful living history. We have changed.
@JayTee0007
@JayTee0007 6 ай бұрын
My great great great grandfather fought in the battle at Gettysburg. I am in my mid sixties and found this out through geneology a year ago. I am originally from and grew up in Western Pennsylvania.
@mikelouis9389
@mikelouis9389 5 ай бұрын
We western Pennsylvanians definitely represented in the civil war. I to am in my very late sixties was told how my great great grandfather was in the south purchasing horses when the war broke out. He basically traveled the underground railroad back north and became a Captain of Cavalry and was a noted marksman even from atop horseback. He got his commission from his stables, he earned it with accurate lead.
@jguenther3049
@jguenther3049 5 ай бұрын
My grandfather was 7 years old at the time of the Gettysburg battle. My youngest son was born 120 years after my grandfather.
@cliffpage7677
@cliffpage7677 5 ай бұрын
My mother's mother's side of the family defended their homes and churches at Brabams Bridge in the Low County below Orangburg on the Edisto. Sherman burned the Baptist Church to the ground and the homes of the five klans that made up the community. Sherman was a monster! South Carolinians and other Southerners have an oderous regard for Sherman that can only be surpassed by that of the Sioux, Crow, Cheyhan, and other Native Americans that came under the treatment of those who learned Sherman's practice of total war, Sheridan, Crow, Custer and others.
@mikelouis9389
@mikelouis9389 5 ай бұрын
@@cliffpage7677 And Y'all were such saints. If you hadn't started it, Sherman wouldn't have needed to finish it.
@houstonvanhoy2198
@houstonvanhoy2198 4 ай бұрын
@jaytee0007 I am 73 years old. My great grandfather was wounded in Pickett's Charge, but survived and fought in several later battles. He was paroled at Appomattox Courthouse, and like many other CSA infantrymen, had to walk home to Stanly County, NC. He and his wife produced four sons and four daughters. He lived until 1935. My other great- grandfather - also from Stanly County, NC - was killed at Gettysburg, but apparently had at least one daughter - my grandmother - before joining the CSA. 🇺🇲 God bless the USA, and all who live here.
@needsaride15126
@needsaride15126 6 ай бұрын
That was such a great story.
@jameslemes8397
@jameslemes8397 3 ай бұрын
They information I gained here in from this story changes so much what was feed to us in school in the 1940-70's 😧 Making Sherman a tyrannical Military General Burning his way through every encounter and city. This presents a compassionate side I had not attributed to him or his match ... Thank you Whereas History is often written by the victor, many times the scholars might have an axe to grind or mark to make. ... God Bless America ... May we all deserve the HUGE Sacrifice that Hundreds of Thousands of soldiers and innocent civilians gave to secure what we now enjoy without much afterthought or attention in our own growing problems. Amen
@markharwell8793
@markharwell8793 5 ай бұрын
One brother wore blue One brother wore gray One brother went One brother stayed One brother's here One brother's there Oh, where shall I fight Oh, what shall I wear? I'm gonna wear my tight blue pants And my gray sport jacket And stay at home with the girls Now, now, now I don't want to get to Gettysburg No, no, no, no I got a protest sign And a bottle of wine And my baby and I are gonna Go, go, go, go Now, Grant and Lee Don't mean nothin' to me And fightin's nothin' but a bore I'll wear my tight blue pants And my gray sport jacket And to hell with the Civil War
@gabet945
@gabet945 4 ай бұрын
Figures that a guy wearing tight blue pants would write this.
@anotheryoutubechannel4809
@anotheryoutubechannel4809 4 ай бұрын
@@gabet945😂😂😂😂
@billmcghee7680
@billmcghee7680 3 ай бұрын
​@@gabet945cut off the blood flow to a couple places, too. Oh well, he was able to hit all the highest notes, for sure.
@genevawhite3178
@genevawhite3178 3 ай бұрын
Thanks for this program.
@AU88
@AU88 3 ай бұрын
Very cool story. Thank you.
@hatfieldmain
@hatfieldmain 6 ай бұрын
Thank you for posting
@steveshoemaker6347
@steveshoemaker6347 6 ай бұрын
Wonderful song....Thanks very much..... Old F-4 Phantom ll pilot Shoe🇺🇸
@redcossack245
@redcossack245 5 ай бұрын
Another great show. Many of my family members fought Sherman all the way to around Atlanta and one chased him on his march to the sea. Ah well, by gones are by gones. Great show.
@OnTheOnlyShipButHalfWannaSink
@OnTheOnlyShipButHalfWannaSink 4 ай бұрын
“Bygones are bygones” - a sentiment I admire, but rarely hear these days, and even more rarely see in action.
@susanschaffner4422
@susanschaffner4422 6 ай бұрын
Great story.
@PObermanns
@PObermanns 5 ай бұрын
Amazing story!
@PhilChavanne
@PhilChavanne 3 ай бұрын
Great story, poignant song! Thank you for the research you put in to resurrect this unique moment in the little history of men at war!
@xisotopex
@xisotopex 6 ай бұрын
wow to live that long and witness so many changes...
@MyelinProductions
@MyelinProductions 5 ай бұрын
WOW! THANK YOU! Amazing! Great history and insights. Very Good Useful information of real actual historical events. ~ Be Safe out there folks ~ Peace & Health to Us All.
@michaelfitzgerald434
@michaelfitzgerald434 3 ай бұрын
That you for this! God Bless!
@markkinsler4333
@markkinsler4333 5 ай бұрын
Gen Sherman was born and grew up just around the corner from here. Lancaster, Ohio, long a Confederate stronghold, did not appreciate him much. There's a small statue of the gentleman downtown, just standing there holding his hat. Ohio offered to erect a far larger, equestrian statue around 1900, but the locals refused it. Check out the across the street from the Plaza Hotel (in Central Park, actually) in New York City. Sherman never came back to Lancaster..
@MrIronose
@MrIronose 5 ай бұрын
They pronounce it LANK-ister. I grew up in Newark, pronounced Nerk.
@joanwalter6551
@joanwalter6551 5 ай бұрын
Does anyone have a musical score to this poem ?
@swampybman7741
@swampybman7741 5 ай бұрын
Sherman was not know for being a gentleman nor burden with mercy. Many a Union loyalist suffered greatly from his tactics in the south.
@TomSpeaks-vw1zp
@TomSpeaks-vw1zp 5 ай бұрын
@@MrIronose You pronounced both correctly. I was born and raised in Lankister😂 The Palace theatre was across the street from The Sherman House. On either side of the movie screen were huge murals. One side was an Indian chief. The other a portrait of Robert E. Lee facing the Sherman house. That’s how divided that area was during the Civil War.
@TomSpeaks-vw1zp
@TomSpeaks-vw1zp 5 ай бұрын
@@swampybman7741 But his troops loved Uncle Billy. There’s always two sides to every coin as well as stories. That was no ordinary war. And you did what you had to do. Some swore he was insane. But he got the job done. He was accused of burning Atlanta when in fact the fleeing Confederate army started the fires. As far a pillaging the towns, and farms along the way, when you have 60+ thousand troops under your command you can’t control everything. And they need to eat. It was war!
@amadeusamwater
@amadeusamwater 6 ай бұрын
Us Iowa folks are very creative...
@rb1179
@rb1179 6 ай бұрын
As someone that's done RAGBRAI a dozen times, I agree!
@amadeusamwater
@amadeusamwater 6 ай бұрын
@@rb1179 Good man. We like repeat riders.
@cht2162
@cht2162 6 ай бұрын
We Iowa folks...
@stevensapyak7971
@stevensapyak7971 6 ай бұрын
6.19.24. ⛹🏻‍♀️Caitlin Clark … the WNBA’s💁🏻‍♂️Larry Bird™️
@Steve-gx9ot
@Steve-gx9ot 6 ай бұрын
​@@stevensapyak7971she is nowhere near Bird level! Get real
@snowman333-
@snowman333- 5 ай бұрын
this is the first time I have heard of Sherman's march in anything but a negative connotation. thank you
@veramae4098
@veramae4098 5 ай бұрын
Sherman's Army liberated Andersonville, a POW camp for Union prisoners. Conditions had been horrible. It was after this that Sherman showed no mercy.
@TisiphonesShadow
@TisiphonesShadow 5 ай бұрын
@@veramae4098 Maybe he should have toured Camp Douglas and Elmira, plus a few other large Union POW camps. He might have changed sides.
@leonwhitesell4849
@leonwhitesell4849 5 ай бұрын
My gggrand father starved to death in Fortress Monroe as a Union soldier from PA, leaving a widow with three children! 🇺🇸 ✝️🇺🇸❤️
@janetprice85
@janetprice85 5 ай бұрын
When they got to Savannah Union soldiers wrote home complaining" all they had to eat was rice everlasting rice at every meal". Savannah was surrounded by rice plantations as was many coastal areas from north Florida to SC. Rice is the potatoes of east Georgia. My grandmother served virtually it at every meal with peas,okra tomato gumbo,with gravy and fried chicken,etc. Probably why Chinese food is a favorite in the south.
@jamescook7713
@jamescook7713 5 ай бұрын
Sherman, war criminal.
@dmaxwell167
@dmaxwell167 3 ай бұрын
My Great-Grandfather marched with Indiana 97th under Sherman from TN to Atlanta to Columbia up to Washington DC. He marched in the Grand Parade turn came home to farm near Linton IN.
@SEPARATIONATION
@SEPARATIONATION 6 ай бұрын
Nice song. Sherman must have been quite pleased.
@delstanley1349
@delstanley1349 6 ай бұрын
And I always thought the phrase "Sherman's March to the Sea" was a phrase used by historians AFTER the war. So Sherman was a legend in song in his own time! So much so that a prisoner of war (confederate prisoner at that) knew of Sherman's movements and where he was going and had time to get pen AND paper and still have enough of cheery soul to write an ode or song.
@stevesnider4251
@stevesnider4251 5 ай бұрын
​@delstanley1349. The author of the song was a Union soldier held prisoner in Charleston.
@delstanley1349
@delstanley1349 5 ай бұрын
@@stevesnider4251 >Yes, I knew that from watching the video, but I guess I was too clumsy in my wording. I should have said a "prisoner of the confederates" instead of a "confederate prisoner." I was using it in the sense of saying "Al Capone was a federal prisoner," meaning he was a prisoner of the feds, or "James Bonds is a British spy," meaning he is a spy of/for the British government, but I can easily see where the confusion comes in despite the context in the video. Thanx, my bad.
@tamer1773
@tamer1773 6 ай бұрын
Always interesting. Especially the biographic details of the people involved.
@paulapridy6804
@paulapridy6804 5 ай бұрын
Good one. Uplifting 😊
@cfjohnson7369
@cfjohnson7369 5 ай бұрын
As I recall, the SC statehouse has several bronze stars on one side, to mark where Gen. Sherman's cannon balls struck. The population did not want to forget!
@JohnOliver100
@JohnOliver100 5 ай бұрын
Indeed! I live near Columbia. The bronze stars are still there and across the river there is marker where Sherman's canons stood.
@TheScotsman1977
@TheScotsman1977 5 ай бұрын
And your assessment?
@CosmasNDamian
@CosmasNDamian 5 ай бұрын
Absolutely brilliant.
@DavidCondon-x5c
@DavidCondon-x5c 3 ай бұрын
Amazing I like it they all love America.
@anotheryoutubechannel4809
@anotheryoutubechannel4809 4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@RonSharpe-v8r
@RonSharpe-v8r 5 ай бұрын
My great grandfather was in Sherman's Army, and I have lived in the area they conquered since 1961.
@milkywayan2232
@milkywayan2232 4 ай бұрын
@user-yd3cx1ih6b- Did you try getting a discount on your land?
@unclejamo94553
@unclejamo94553 4 ай бұрын
Conquered, or liberated?
@mandoguy726
@mandoguy726 4 ай бұрын
Why would you be proud of this? And conquered is definitely the word.
@danieljstark1625
@danieljstark1625 6 ай бұрын
Fascinating!
@captcardor
@captcardor 6 ай бұрын
Very Interesting. All trained historians long to discover true to life moments of humanity like this. Great work!
@2ezee2011
@2ezee2011 6 ай бұрын
loved that !
@curtgomes
@curtgomes 6 ай бұрын
Quite an episode. I would really loved to have heard the POW glee club sing this song. Thanks for doing this research…...
@jefferyhorton7496
@jefferyhorton7496 6 ай бұрын
See The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly! Lol!
@yvonnephillips3888
@yvonnephillips3888 5 ай бұрын
My forefathers fought against Sherman. As Sherman marched towards Charleston, any Confederate solders left in hopes of diverting the union soldiers away. Also Sherman did his early training at Fort Moultrie in Charleston and made friends with many families there. That was two reasons he did not obliterate Charleston as he did Atlanta.
@yb-rk5oh
@yb-rk5oh 5 ай бұрын
same with savannah
@bremenrooster
@bremenrooster 5 ай бұрын
Sherman was the first President of the Louisiana Military Academy….now LSU! He hated the fact that war broke out and he had to leave his friends down there! Also, it is being proven now that Sherman…did not BURN Columbia, SC….escaping Rebels did….by lighting bales of cotton on fire. Another fact: in the March to the Sea….approx 2500 Federal Troops were killed and only 1500 Rebel guerillas. Just FYI to break down more Sherman myths!
@davidoneil858
@davidoneil858 5 ай бұрын
00⁰
@rickbrant4285
@rickbrant4285 4 ай бұрын
And Columbia..... that letter us pure propaganda. Drunk Yankee soldiers burned the city
@mandoguy726
@mandoguy726 4 ай бұрын
Your forefathers were Valiant heroes fighting for a righteous cause and you should be proud.
@victoriakidd-cromis1124
@victoriakidd-cromis1124 5 ай бұрын
This is the first time I've listtened to your program. Well done! I am distantly related to Champ Ferguson, who turned outlaw at the end of the war. If I remember correctly his father was a brother to my great great grandfather on my mother's side of the family. I am interested in the stories of the civil war. My mother's family, on both sides, were from Clinton county, KY. My dad's family were from Virginia, but to my knowledge did not serve on either side.
@rickvia8435
@rickvia8435 5 ай бұрын
Very impressive...
@jameshorn270
@jameshorn270 5 ай бұрын
Most of my family was Pennsylvania Dutch, with a few Quakers scattered in, but one, the son of a Union militia colonel, became a minister called to serve a church in Charleston S C, where he married the daughter of a Confederate captain. The Confederate branch of the family learned that Sherman was advancing from Savannah, figured that he was certain to make his main target their city, so they shipped most of their valuables up country to their plantation to the NE of Columbia for safety. Naturally, Sherman, did the unexpected and bypassed Charleston, took Coumbia, and continued straight across their plantation. Thus, we have relatively few heirlooms from that branch of our ancestors.
@janetprice85
@janetprice85 5 ай бұрын
Sherman marched right down the road to Savannah past multiple members of my Mom's families's farms and businesses. The men were off fighting. The irony is my Mom married a boy in WW2 who's midwestern family was with the Illinois Union soldiers with Sherman marching past her families's homes.
@temijinkahn511
@temijinkahn511 5 ай бұрын
Excellent! Earned a sub!
@rafehr1378
@rafehr1378 5 ай бұрын
As a Nevadan. Nevada sent Silver, gold, and men to the North, to fight the South. How Nevada became a state in the United States.
@benevolencia4203
@benevolencia4203 5 ай бұрын
🫡🇺🇸👍🏽
@NJMerlin
@NJMerlin 5 ай бұрын
There was a “Bonanza” episode about that.
@oldgeezerproductions
@oldgeezerproductions 6 ай бұрын
Thanks for another winner Ron. Would it be possible to do some research into the song's intended melody? I would very much like to know the melody to which these lyrics would be sung to. As it stands, it is a wonderful and clever panegyric poem, but it would be more pleasurable and more easily memorized if it could be sung to a tune. I know that there were many such songs in those days (when people had to make their own music) that were sung to older Irish, Scottish, French, German and English Folk tunes, in addition to the very popular Steven Foster melodies of the day.
@RichardDCook
@RichardDCook 5 ай бұрын
That's exactly what I was wondering about. Some of the most well-known songs we have today, such as The Star-Spangled Banner and Amazing Grace, were simply sets of words, poems, with no melody whatsoever. Both of these were married to various melodies as time went on, and at some point became associated with the tunes we associate with them today (To Anacreon in Heaven, and New Britain, respectively). What might be done, if the original tune can't be found, is to marry it to a popular tune of that time that suits the meter of the lyrics. It was done with the early 19th century sea-song The Baltimore, of which only the lyrics survived. Married to a strong shanty-tune it makes a wonderful song. (I read that later the original tune was discovered, as it happens not nearly as nice as the old shanty-tune!)
@junefields1512
@junefields1512 5 ай бұрын
Awesome history
@dennisclapp7527
@dennisclapp7527 5 ай бұрын
Thank you
@lannyfaulkner6697
@lannyfaulkner6697 6 ай бұрын
Great! Thanks for this!
@fredferd965
@fredferd965 5 ай бұрын
Considering modern times as they are today, and then hearing this, I fear that we have lost something, something very important and very wonderful along the way. What it is we will never know, and will never understand, unless we discover it again....
@OnTheOnlyShipButHalfWannaSink
@OnTheOnlyShipButHalfWannaSink 4 ай бұрын
War never ends, even if it appears cold for a time. And yet there’s time for many to live.
@leswilliamson3587
@leswilliamson3587 5 ай бұрын
Thanks
@harrygr218
@harrygr218 6 ай бұрын
wonderful bits of history
@davidaltschuler9687
@davidaltschuler9687 6 ай бұрын
"Here ARE the words..."
@tyjameson7404
@tyjameson7404 6 ай бұрын
Epic lyrics ❤️😘🐐🎠🌙
@delstanley1349
@delstanley1349 6 ай бұрын
The song written in 1864/65 I guess it is safe to assume that he won't be demonetized by KZbin for copyright infringement🙂
@scottmckenna9164
@scottmckenna9164 6 ай бұрын
On the highway driving and in politics….ASSUME NOTHING!
@genespell4340
@genespell4340 5 ай бұрын
There is a good possibility that the song never got submitted for a copyright.
@delstanley1349
@delstanley1349 5 ай бұрын
@@genespell4340 >It was meant only as a joke.
@hsiehkanusea
@hsiehkanusea 5 ай бұрын
A lot of truth in jest. If an ASCAP/RIAA patent troll hears of it, I suspect they'll "reach out" to the channel.
@milkywayan2232
@milkywayan2232 4 ай бұрын
@delstnley1349. Oh. I thought jokes were supposed to be funny.
@MBSLC
@MBSLC 6 ай бұрын
"With Fire and Sword" and "Switzerland and the Swiss" were authored by S.H.M. Byers. Thanks for the great information. These books are available on Amazon.
@russwayne2132
@russwayne2132 4 ай бұрын
I was born and raised in Columbia, my family on my mother's side going back at least four generations in Columbia and nearby Lexington County. My grandmother told me that she remembered stories from her grandmother telling of Sherman's march through Columbia, and no one was singing songs. She said; "Everyone was hiding their good silver because them damn Yankees was stealing everything they could get their hands on".
@feralbluee
@feralbluee 3 ай бұрын
Thank you for this history lesson :). It made Sherman a human being and not the General he is made out to be. The southerners set fire to their own cotton. It was Sherman’s soldiers who went wild, although, could he have stopped them? He set free Union soldiers, thank goodness - the southern prisons were horrific!! And he had compassion for others - e.g. Bryers :) My first time here - very well done. Have a great day! :) ☁️🌷🌱
@ChrisKimbro-k7z
@ChrisKimbro-k7z 3 ай бұрын
Ever heard of Camp Lookout?
@ChrisKimbro-k7z
@ChrisKimbro-k7z 3 ай бұрын
Sherman was a terrorist. Nothing else.
@FullRaidersAlchemist
@FullRaidersAlchemist 3 ай бұрын
Native Americans, not so much....
@johnhallett5846
@johnhallett5846 17 күн бұрын
The fact is that General Joe Wheelers soldiers did more looting at the end then did Shermans troops
@AsaTrenchard1865
@AsaTrenchard1865 4 ай бұрын
The commandant of Andersonville was a Swiss guy named Wirtz.
@chrism3872
@chrism3872 4 ай бұрын
He was also hanged as a war criminal after the war...
@kenroberts2556
@kenroberts2556 6 ай бұрын
wow, this should be should not be forgotten ,powerfull words. thank you
@brianloughnane781
@brianloughnane781 6 ай бұрын
Amazing
@poisonpawn6452
@poisonpawn6452 5 ай бұрын
"Uncle Billy" has been my hero all my life.
@thomasfort2051
@thomasfort2051 5 ай бұрын
Then you are an admirer of a criminal.
@thomasfort2051
@thomasfort2051 4 ай бұрын
I guess you idealize a psychopath and an arsonist.
@poisonpawn6452
@poisonpawn6452 4 ай бұрын
@thomasfort2051 His acts after the war disprove the psychopath theory. He lived and died a hero against an enemy of...I got censored for saying it last time...but it starts with a "T" and rhymes with "Craters."
@thomasfort2051
@thomasfort2051 4 ай бұрын
@@poisonpawn6452 The T word is often thrown around by people who don’t understand anything about the formation of this country and the constitution. I suggest l that you read the book “North over South “ by Mary-Susan Grant to educate yourself. The Southerners were no different than the original Rebels of 1776. Unless you think that “Might makes Right” you would agree. There is a historical marker on River Drive in Columbia where the mayor met Sherman outside of the city and surrendered the city intact, undefended and unburned. The subsequent attack was on women, children, and old men. Columbia burned as did other cities and private residences all across the South. If you approve of that, then you ought to look inward to see what kind of person you are.
@scottmorse1798
@scottmorse1798 4 ай бұрын
sure would be cool to hear the song sung!
@davidlee8551
@davidlee8551 5 ай бұрын
“ A song from the American Civil War. In September 1864 General Sherman advanced from Chattanooga to Atlanta and then cut a swath of desolation through central Georgia to Savannah. After reaching his objective on the Georgia coast in December, he turned North, where hundreds of ragged Federal soldiers in Charleston Jail were eagerly awaiting their freedom. One of them, Lieutenant S. H. M. Byers, composed this song. Although he wrote a tune, it was more frequently sung to the Irish melody of "Rosin the Beau". The song became a big hit in the North, appearing in thousands of copies of song sheets and songbooks.” More at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5XZp4ikia-bask&pp=ygUhU29uZyAtIFNoZXJtYW4ncyBtYXJjaCB0byB0aGUgc2Vh
@PaulTamm
@PaulTamm 6 ай бұрын
I always like your podcasts. This one was especially fun.
@98f12-h7g
@98f12-h7g 4 ай бұрын
Most of the men in the South did not own slaves . Only the very wealthy plantation owners but we all surfed .
@karenpowers3319
@karenpowers3319 4 ай бұрын
For following the traitors to the country.
@unclejamo94553
@unclejamo94553 4 ай бұрын
We? How old are you?
@dmac2782
@dmac2782 4 ай бұрын
Charlie don't surf!!
@dmac2782
@dmac2782 4 ай бұрын
Charlie don't surf!
@apacheworrier3776
@apacheworrier3776 3 ай бұрын
@@karenpowers3319 Slavery wasn’t even mentioned as a cause until 3 years into the war. (Emancipation Proclamation) Lincoln offered to make slavery a constitutional right before the war started, if the south would agree to a 25% tax on cotton exports. Our ancestors were killed over a tax dispute less than 100 years after the revolution.
@raymondbuniak6887
@raymondbuniak6887 6 ай бұрын
Please add a performance of the song.
@ukulelemikeleii
@ukulelemikeleii 5 ай бұрын
I found a version and posted it!
@ukulelemikeleii
@ukulelemikeleii 5 ай бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5XZp4ikia-basksi=yD5T1u0zRjoMTHlQ
@ontherocks23
@ontherocks23 5 ай бұрын
FWIW, a slightly different account of the out-of-control fires in Columbia was that evacuating Confederate military leaders advised city leaders to destroy all liquor supplies in advance of the arrival of occupying Union forces. Apparently, the city leaders failed to do this and later, drunken Union soldiers, bent on punishing South Carolina for starting the war, set fire to cotton bales, which then spread to numerous buildings. Apparently, as the city had surrendered, the burning of Columbia was not intentional. Note: this account was in a book - read decades ago - about the closing months of the war. (The author and title escape my memory, at the moment.) Apparently, the Union soldiers wanted to advance on and burn Charleston in revenge, but the Union forces bypassed Charleston to proceed north towards Richmond, VA.
@alancourtney4000
@alancourtney4000 4 ай бұрын
I read another account put together by journals of the citizens of Columbia that substantiate your statements. While WTS did not sanction or order the atrocities committed by his troops, the fact remains that they occurred and were committed by troops that fell in with his forces as they took the war to the south in order to shorten the war. Most of the carnage that occurred in Columbia was instigated by drunken troops from the Ohio brigades as was documented by many of the private journals. The southern troops that were on duty in Columbia had departed weeks before to shore up the defense of Charlotte where the Confederates thought that he would go next. He went to Fayetteville, instead. Ohio troops were less than humane to the former slaves in Columbia as was reported in the journals. I wasn't there so I can neither confirm nor deny the veracity of these journals. I can, however, agree that history is written or fabricated by the victors. As a disclaimer, and as I understand, WTS was a devout man and was loyal to his troops. Unfortunately some of the soldiers that fell in with his march to the sea were not as devout nor were they as humane.
@caSClady
@caSClady 5 ай бұрын
Being born in Iowa and raised in CA, I knew that my grandfather had in his heritage a grandfather who marched with Sherman down to the sea. It was a shock when our family moved to Lexington SC just across from Columbia. The people here are so lovely and we call it home. I worked for some years in Columbia and used to imagine what it was like for Grandfather Cook fighting there, especially as I crossed the bridge into the city. I marveled seeing the scars on the statehouse where cannon balls from my grandfather’s troop hit the marks. I was always proud that he had fought for the Union and to free the slaves. My heart swelled hearing your reading of the song. I can’t thank you enough for telling this remarkable story. I’ll be sharing this with my history loving son to show to his sons.
@custardflan
@custardflan 6 ай бұрын
My great grandfather's brothers unit was the 3rd Wwisconsin and was therw.
@DeanKaehele-xq1iz
@DeanKaehele-xq1iz 4 ай бұрын
I would dearly love to hear that played by guitar & harmonica
@katherinecompton6591
@katherinecompton6591 5 ай бұрын
Thank you, just found and subdcribed.
@ukulelemikeleii
@ukulelemikeleii 5 ай бұрын
And now for my third and final comment: what were the circumstances behind Byers capture? Was he taken prisoner during the Battles of Atlanta, or during the March to the Sea?
@lifeonthecivilwarresearchtrail
@lifeonthecivilwarresearchtrail 5 ай бұрын
Byers and about 80 others from his regiment were captured at the November 1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge.
@vinnolano
@vinnolano 5 ай бұрын
I remember in Charleston when some somebody at a bar heard my northern accent he had to take a dig at me that his" great great great grandaddy kilt himself a yankee." I responded " cool, my parents emigrated from Europe. Thats got nothing to do with me." Great Story about Sherman acknowledging this man
@damkayaker
@damkayaker 4 ай бұрын
Well that hick rebel was lying because he added too many generations to his grand daddy. My great grandfather was born in 1844 and fought in the Civil War.
@scottw5315
@scottw5315 4 ай бұрын
I'm from Charleston. I'm sixty one and aside from schoolboy trash talk from half a century ago, no one today thinks much of that war and most of us know it was a costly mistake. The south did two things wrong in my opinion. They built an economy based on slavery. Then, rather than giving up an evil system when it was clear the world had moved on from such barbarity, they chose to fight to maintain it. Sadly, a tiny minority of wealthy landowners convinced mostly poor dirt farmers who didn't own slaves to do their fighting for them. They used the argument that it was their state right's that were at stake. That argument is still alive and well today. However, the key state right for them was to maintain the slavery institution. A testament to man's folly.
@-sensibleChris
@-sensibleChris 4 ай бұрын
​@@scottw5315That's it in a nut shell. I grew uo in the south also and that is the truth. Some of us see it, others are still being duped by wealthy landowners into doing their bidding. Dinald Trump is the equivalent of those wealthy southern landowners that would do anything to keep their slave labor. Repu license cling to their anti labor core beliefs that are leftover from the Civil War when Today's Republicans were then Southern Democrats.
@mandoguy726
@mandoguy726 4 ай бұрын
​@@-sensibleChris You should remember the government tyranny that was pushed on the Southern states. The tyrants in Washington DC want you to forget. That's how they operate. And you really have a glaring misunderstanding of what a States Rights president is.
@akaJackLugar
@akaJackLugar 4 ай бұрын
South Carolina was the biggest pain in the a** during the war
@davidisner718
@davidisner718 3 ай бұрын
I always wondered why the impressive Confederate army barracks which today form the gorgeous USC "horseshoe" weren't burned to the ground by Sherman's army during the war. This video helps explain it... thank you!
@EruditeDM
@EruditeDM 5 ай бұрын
I’m a Texas A&M Aggie but I’ve been to a football game in Columbia before. Bet the note said “Go Cocks!!” #SEC 😂👍🏼
@babbarr77
@babbarr77 4 ай бұрын
I lived in Columbia for five years. I attended a basketball game at the university, On the bottoms of the underpants the cheerleaders wore for Columbia was printed: “Go Cocks”.
@josepha8759
@josepha8759 Ай бұрын
I recall attending the football game between Georgia and South Carolina as a freshman at UGA in '78. On my walk to Sanford Stadium, I saw a big banner hung from the windows of Myers Hall that read "Beat Those Cocks!"
@rogerd777
@rogerd777 2 ай бұрын
Did that song become popular? I know that "Marching thru Georgia" was a popular song for many years, but I don't know about this one.
@paulsmith9341
@paulsmith9341 5 ай бұрын
Hoorah!
@NoBody-xg1wg
@NoBody-xg1wg 5 ай бұрын
My maternal grandmother was a niece of Col. Nelson A. Miles.
@philipbaity7083
@philipbaity7083 5 ай бұрын
War is Hell!
@waltergibson9178
@waltergibson9178 6 ай бұрын
When was Buyers captured? During or after the march?
@TerryByers-xk2qe
@TerryByers-xk2qe 4 ай бұрын
Byers was captured at Chattanooga,according to his book fire and sword.
@gillygil8747
@gillygil8747 5 ай бұрын
Good ol' Uncle Billy!
@thomasfort2051
@thomasfort2051 5 ай бұрын
Resides in hades
@Austin8thGenTexan
@Austin8thGenTexan 5 ай бұрын
A great story! In the US Army during the Civil War, an adjutant was most likely a captain.
@thomasfort2051
@thomasfort2051 4 ай бұрын
I’m glad you are so happy and delirious about a city which was surrendered intact and days later was burned to the ground. A happy time for you, but not for the unfortunate citizens of the city. This was a true war crime and an outrage.
@Gravitycreatedlife
@Gravitycreatedlife 5 ай бұрын
Sherman's March to the Sea was an American Civil War campaign lasting from November 15 to December 21, 1864, in which Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led troops through the Confederate state of Georgia, pillaging the countryside and destroying both military outposts and civilian properties.
@jamescook7713
@jamescook7713 5 ай бұрын
Northern war criminals, NOT soldiers.
@chilidogg2047
@chilidogg2047 5 ай бұрын
​@jamescook7713 , Yes, intentionally targeting and attacking civilians is a war crime. A couple years ago, I read a well-documented book about war crimes against the South, both black and white people. It matters not what you think of the cause of either side, they are facts. Of course, war itself is a crime.
@stevesnider4251
@stevesnider4251 5 ай бұрын
​@@jamescook7713......said the American taitors.
@yuckyool
@yuckyool 5 ай бұрын
​@@keithmarlowe5569Kennesaw Mountain?
@yuckyool
@yuckyool 5 ай бұрын
@@keithmarlowe5569 Reason I enjoy history --- always more facts and interpretations being considered. So much I don't know. Was at Chattanooga and Vicksburg recently.
@delstanley1349
@delstanley1349 6 ай бұрын
If anyone wants to hear the song's melody accompanied by voice and acoustic guitar there is a KZbinr --- raymondcrooke video titled "Sherman's March to the Sea (by SHM Byers)" you can check out.
@charlespackwood2055
@charlespackwood2055 5 ай бұрын
If you desire to skip to the chase.... regarding the song, itself: @9:38 (to the tune of Beethoven's 9th Choral Symphony in C# (the programming language)
@mitchellhawkes22
@mitchellhawkes22 6 ай бұрын
Nice Civil War interlude, with a musical side story. We're so glad you didn't try to sing it, Ron. You've got a good, sincere, gravelly voice for documentary. We appreciate what you bring. But music is a refined and different discipline. Leave it to the inmates. Whose fans were the Southern Belles.
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