William Tecumseh Sherman
In the year 1864, Georgia howled in pain. A Northman named William Tecumseh Sherman knocked them senseless and made the lights go out.
Tonight, Georgia will not have seen anything like these Northmen from the University of Michigan since the March to the Sea.
At the end of the game, when you are basking in that glow, the glow of victory, when the rest of the college football world is saying over and over, "What just happened to Georgia?", smile.
Smile, in the sweet satisfaction that you knew this was going to happen, you knew Georgia would howl. You knew Michigan would smash Georgia.
Michigan wins 42-10.
December 31st, 2021 at 2:25 PM ^
Georgia is going to run flat tonight!
and run into a stout Michigan defense
December 31st, 2021 at 2:26 PM ^
I guess that would make Warde Manuel become U.S. Grant
December 31st, 2021 at 6:38 PM ^
I’ll meet him in Smyrna and watch Atlanta burn tonight.
December 31st, 2021 at 2:26 PM ^
I like the enthusiasm but but I’m iffy correlating football with a military campaign that, while perhaps necessary for the outcome of the war, resulted in the destruction of the lives of thousands of civilians.
December 31st, 2021 at 2:29 PM ^
Liberation of millions though.
December 31st, 2021 at 6:15 PM ^
As I said ….. necessary for the outcome of the war
December 31st, 2021 at 2:32 PM ^
Your point still stands, but it is mostly myth that Sherman's March to the Sea did as much damage as the Lost Causers claim. Modern studies have shown the damage to be greatly exaggerated. Also, what Sherman did to civilians was not qualitatively different than what other military campaigns did in the 1800s including the Confederates themselves.
I would dare say that the Confederates in the North behaved worse during the Gettysburg Campaign. They kidnapped over 1,000 free blacks in a short time in Pennsylvania.
December 31st, 2021 at 3:25 PM ^
The South also produced Nathan Bedford Forrest and Bloody Bill Anderson. There is no Northern equivalence to the brutal atrocities they delivered. Then there's the murder, rape, and torture they inflicted on millions of Black people. I have zero sympathy for the South's supposed suffering.
December 31st, 2021 at 4:39 PM ^
Not to mention Forrest’s founding of the KKK…
December 31st, 2021 at 5:27 PM ^
The North was complicit in the murder(which really wasn’t common for obvious reasons), torture, and rape. Americans really have to see slavery as a collective crime and not just sectional.The North was complicit in the perpetuation of the crime of slavery.
Sheridan in the Valley constitutes a war crime.
Phil Sheridan was a brute during and after the Civil War. Sherman too. Sherman was also a white supremacist.
It seems you forgot that the North produced the brutes behind the Indian Wars.
December 31st, 2021 at 6:56 PM ^
I don’t see how whataboutism can make the OP’s analogy any less distasteful.
December 31st, 2021 at 7:06 PM ^
Whataboutism is a term intellectually lazy and morally hypocritical use to try to deflect from their failings. You shouldn’t use it.
December 31st, 2021 at 5:35 PM ^
The brutality of the March does indeed have antecedents in military history. But it’s impact upon the “Americas. Way of war” far exceeds any other battle in the war. The officers who helmed the Union armies in the CW would later use Sherman’s methods upon the Indians and later Filipinos. Americans would continue this war on civilians in World War Two, Korea, and Vietnam with devastating effect. Millions of lived would be ended.
This is why we cannot ever glorify Sherman’s March no matter how loathsome the Confederacy was.
Wwr is always evil. It’s always a debasement of the self and society. Let’s not forget that.
December 31st, 2021 at 2:50 PM ^
I have no doubt millions of Georgia fans will feel their lives destroyed, as they must be for right and just ends.
Also, let’s all try to not be miserable today.
December 31st, 2021 at 6:19 PM ^
Not miserable. Just said I was “iffy” with it as I understand the excitement of tonight. Just think there’s a better anecdote out there.
and I don’t pretend to know what it is either. I’m not that smart …
December 31st, 2021 at 3:06 PM ^
That's the myth that Southerners began propagating as soon as Sherman left town; what he did was actually quite in keeping with sound historic military principles and nowhere near as wanton or bloodthirsty as was made out. This has become pretty widely understood.
December 31st, 2021 at 5:28 PM ^
What has passed for sound historic military principles in the past would be considered a war crime now. What Sherman did would indeed be considered a war crime despite what modern Union apologist up historians would have you believe.
December 31st, 2021 at 5:48 PM ^
You're quite well known for your reactionary views, sir, and here you're simply talking through your hat. But dig around--even Southerners say that he 'burned the city,' not that he created a bloodbath: NO ONE says that What he did was make sure that there would not be supplies or ability of the Confederate Army to slow his march from Atlanta. I think that if you dig around you'll find that a) it's absolutely clear now that there was a huge PR campaign around the affair which was gobbled up (furthered by Gone With the Wind), and b) that military historians almost universally now concede that what he did was sound for anyone who sought, as he did, to conclude--and win--a war. Dig in.
December 31st, 2021 at 6:22 PM ^
Also, confederate troops set fires to military stores on their way out of town.
December 31st, 2021 at 7:04 PM ^
You are quite well known for your leftist views, sir, and here you are talking through your ass. But dig around and you will see what the US did during the March was an antecedent to what they would do in the Indian Wars and later wars.
Every combatant uses propaganda in war and even post war. Today’s propagandists for example make it seem like the North gave a shit about slavery when in fact they were as racist as the South. Lincoln understood the depth of racial animosity in the North which is why he took pains to de-emphasize the slavery as the cause. It couldn’t be about freeing black people. At least not until Antietam.
What is sound militarily is not the same as being morally proper. You appear to be struggling with the difference.
As a grandson of a Marine who benefitted from the dropping of the bomb I can recognize the military effectiveness of the use of the bomb while also acknowledging the appalling immorality of it’s use. Morals and war don’t go together. They are strangers.
December 31st, 2021 at 4:10 PM ^
There are like a thousand football terms that spawned from war/military references. Are we going to act politically correct about all of those too?
December 31st, 2021 at 6:17 PM ^
did I say anything about those?
you got a nice 54 inch vertical jumping to all those heady conclusions
December 31st, 2021 at 2:41 PM ^
My dad is a Michigan fan and lives in Tecumseh... Coincidence?
December 31st, 2021 at 2:59 PM ^
No it's a sign
December 31st, 2021 at 3:34 PM ^
Exactly.
December 31st, 2021 at 3:46 PM ^
I'll take it.
December 31st, 2021 at 2:42 PM ^
Your score seems unduly optimistic, but I do think Michigan will run the ball well enough to win the game. Just don’t screw up and give them points with a big mistake.
December 31st, 2021 at 2:43 PM ^
Sigh. Ok. Go team go.
December 31st, 2021 at 2:48 PM ^
42-10. Uhh huh.
December 31st, 2021 at 2:58 PM ^
Justin Leotis Feagin
December 31st, 2021 at 3:01 PM ^
It's this kind of stuff that makes even forward thinking southerners shake their head. This sounds like something Ohio fans would say.
That said, I want all Georgia fans to be shocked tonight.
December 31st, 2021 at 3:59 PM ^
Second.
December 31st, 2021 at 3:07 PM ^
Bear with me. I’m a big fan of William Tecumseh Sherman. We decided to name our son Hugo. I have two middle names. I proposed Hugo Tecumseh Jesus [last name], to my wife.
she said no.
It is fun to sing that name like a spiritual.
December 31st, 2021 at 3:21 PM ^
As a Southerner, all I can say is this..
Hail, the ultimate abode of William Tecumseh Sherman!
Sherman said war is Hail and then made damn sure it was!
Go Blue, Crush the dawgs.
December 31st, 2021 at 4:56 PM ^
I think it was jabberwock that produced the original photoshop image of William Tecumseh Harbaugh back in the day.
December 31st, 2021 at 4:57 PM ^
The South will rise again.
Just in time for the Union to put it right back in its place.
December 31st, 2021 at 5:12 PM ^
Wasn't William Tecumseh Sherman from Ohio? In fact, wasn't he from the larger Columbus area?
May not be the best figure for Michigan to rally behind.
December 31st, 2021 at 5:39 PM ^
So was Bo Schembechler, you candy ass.
December 31st, 2021 at 6:21 PM ^
He has his own skeletons to be fair
December 31st, 2021 at 6:25 PM ^
And Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson
December 31st, 2021 at 7:33 PM ^
Lancaster. Not Columbus. 103 year old statue of him in Pickerington, home of many Wolverines.
December 31st, 2021 at 5:34 PM ^
Any one that works
December 31st, 2021 at 5:39 PM ^
Yes Sherman was from Ohio. But so are many great connections to Michigan FB. Erick All is from Fairfield Ohio as an example; Coach Harbaugh was born in Ohio. yada yada yada.
I like the analogy. Hope it happens but after reading the MGoBlog scouting report on the GA defense yesterday, I'm as nervous as in the OSU game. Will definitely be the best team they've played. Hopefully they can get some leverage on the Dawgs d line and give time for the QBs to make plays.
Also hoping the defense and special teams can make some special plays like the past two games.
Go Blue!
December 31st, 2021 at 5:39 PM ^
Yes Sherman was from Ohio. But so are many great connections to Michigan FB. Erick All is from Fairfield Ohio as an example; Coach Harbaugh was born in Ohio. yada yada yada.
I like the analogy. Hope it happens but after reading the MGoBlog scouting report on the GA defense yesterday, I'm as nervous as in the OSU game. Will definitely be the best team they've played. Hopefully they can get some leverage on the Dawgs d line and give time for the QBs to make plays.
Also hoping the defense and special teams can make some special plays like the past two games.
Go Blue!
