re: #176 Pawn of the Oppressor

On that subject:

A couple of weeks ago, I was reviewing the chain of title to some land out here in the Low Country for a case at my office. The first research was done during a related case back when I was in middle school, and that case’s Affidavit describing the chain noted that it went back to so-and-so who had deed to it in 1880-something, but the records from before that “were destroyed by General Sherman”.

I knew he tore up railroads and burned stores, but land deeds too? Damn! That guy didn’t fsck around…

Sherman folklore, basically bogeyman stories, are a documented cultural phenomenon in the deep south.