re: #95 William Lewis

As for the claim in the OP, this all I have to say to TFG:

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I remember reading about a study that compared local folklore and family legends about losses to Sherman’s army with the actual progress of his army. It found a majority of the stories involved locations that Sherman’s troops were not likely to have visited. Sherman atrocity/family loss stories that could be pinpointed geographically were an average of 60 miles from his known and documented line of march. He had the exalted status of boogeyman to generations of rural southern whites.