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Georgia Southern professor gives different view of Gen. Sherman
Downs: March to the Sea more a mark of his humanity than of any planned brutality
Shermans March
Dr. Alan Downs, an associate professor of history at Georgia Southern University, talks with an attendee of the Bulloch County Historical Society's monthly meeting Monday at GSU's Nessmith-Lane Conference Center after his presentation on Union Gen. William T. Sherman's March to the Sea late in the Civil War. - photo by JASON WERMERS/staff
The black-and-white photograph of Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's glaring countenance appeared on the large projector screen, and some in the audience chuckled, while others talked quietly. "Everybody's favorite anti-Christ," remarked Dr. Alan C. Downs, an associate professor of history at Georgia Southern University, drawing more laughs from the Bulloch County Historical Society meeting he was addressing Monday at the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center. Then red horns appeared on either side of Sherman's head, eliciting heartier laughs.
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