DECEMBER 8, 1864:
General William Tecumseh Sherman U.S.A. comes
across land mines in his March To The Sea. Angered when several of his men are
maimed by these “infernal torpedoes” Sherman orders that Confederate prisoners
are now to be marched in the vanguard of his wings. When the prisoners express
outrage and point out that they have had nothing to do with the placement of
the mines, Sherman tells them, with the hardness they have come to expect, that
if anyone is going to be killed or maimed due to Confederate skullduggery, he
would rather it be Confederates.
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