1. sherman

  • Sherman

    Glory and honor and fame and everlasting laudation
    For our captains who loved not war, but fought for the life of the nation;
    Who knew that, in all the land, one slave meant strife, not peace;
    Who fought for freedom, not glory; made war that war might cease.

    Glory and honor and fame; the beating of muffled drums;
    The wailing funeral dirge, as the flag-...

    Richard Watson Gilder

  • Sherman’s March to the Sea

    [May 4 to December 21, 1864] 1
    OUR camp-fires shone bright on the mountains
      That frowned on the river below,
    While we stood by our guns in the morning
      And eagerly watched for the foe,
    When a rider came out of the darkness
      That hung over the mountain and tree,
    And shouted, “Boys, up and be ready!
      For Sherman will march to...

    Samuel H. M. Byers