...better understand the wrath and desperation of these poor people. I almost felt as if I should like to hang a yankee myself. There was hardly a fence left...fields were trampled down and the road was lined with the carcasses of horses, hogs and cattle that the invaders, unable either to consume or to carry away...

...1879 In the wake of Gen. William T. Sherman's march through Georgia to the coastal city of Savannah, "the fields were trampled down and the road was lined...carcasses of horses, hogs, and cattle that the invaders had wantonly shot down, to starve out the people and prevent them from making their crops. The stench...

...provisions while operating on the fringes of Sherman's columns, added to the pillaging and destruction.10 There was hardly a fence left standing all the way...fields were trampled down and the road was lined with the carcasses of horses, hogs, and cattle that the invaders, unable to consume or carry away with them,...

...wanted and devastated the rest.123 Fences and fields were trampled down and, according to a witness, 'the road was lined with carcasses of horses, hogs, and cattle ... that the invaders had wantonly shot down, to starve out the people.'124 Railroad lines were torn up and homes burned...

...River after the army's passage, wrote that in the "Burnt Country" nothing remained but isolated houses. "The fields were trampled down and the road was lined with carcasses of horses, hogs, and cattle. . . . The stench in some places was unbearable, every few hundred yards we had to hold our noses or...

...desperation of these poor people. I almost felt as if I should like to hang a Yankee myself. . . . The fields were trampled down and the road was lined...carcasses of horses, hogs, and cattle that the invaders . . . had wantonly shot down, to starve out the people and prevent them from making their crops. The...