{"id":"01KG8AKA6F4KPRFV0XCNBGS53M","cid":"bafkreidx57ejwzugo6tabtv7ld2t3k2rvlilcdn7z3moznrsnmqzetr3ii","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5171,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:58.829Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 3","source_file":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","start_line":5108,"text":"Sherman’s homeward advance from Savannah. It is needless to point out\r\nits purely dramatic character.\r\n\r\nThough the sentiment ascribed in the beginning of the second stanza\r\nmust, in the present reading, suggest the historic tragedy of the 14th\r\nof April, nevertheless, as intimated, it was written prior to that\r\nevent, and without any distinct application in the writer’s mind. After\r\nconsideration, it is allowed to remain.\r\n\r\nFew need be reminded that, by the less intelligent classes of the South,\r\nAbraham Lincoln, by nature the most kindly of men, was regarded as a\r\nmonster wantonly warring upon liberty. He stood for the personification\r\nof tyrannic power. Each Union soldier was called a Lincolnite.\r\n\r\nUndoubtedly Sherman, in the desolation he inflicted after leaving\r\nAtlanta, acted not in contravention of orders; and all, in a military\r\npoint of view, if by military judged deemed to have been expedient, and\r\nnothing can abate General Sherman’s shining renown; his claims to it\r\nrest on no single campaign. Still, there are those who can not but\r\ncontrast some of the scenes enacted in Georgia and the Carolinas, and\r\nalso in the Shenandoah, with a circumstance in a great Civil War of\r\nheathen antiquity. Plutarch relates that in a military council held by\r\nPompey and the chiefs of that party which stood for the Commonwealth, it\r\nwas decided that under no plea should any city be sacked that was\r\nsubject to the people of Rome. There was this difference, however,\r\nbetween the Roman civil conflict and the American one. The war of Pompey\r\nand Caesar divided the Roman people promiscuously; that of the North and\r\nSouth ran a frontier line between what for the time were distinct\r\ncommunities or nations. In this circumstance, possibly, and some others,\r\nmay be found both the cause and the justification of some of the\r\nsweeping measures adopted.\r\n\r\n15. At this period of excitement the thought was by some passionately\r\nwelcomed that the Presidential successor had been raised up by heaven to\r\nwreak vengeance on the South. The idea originated in the remembrance\r\nthat Andrew Johnson by birth belonged to that class of Southern whites\r\nwho never cherished love for the dominant: that he was a citizen of\r\nTennessee, where the contest at times and in places had been close and\r\nbitter as a Middle-Age feud; the himself and family had been hardly\r\ntreated by the Secessionists.\r\n\r\nBut the expectations build hereon (if, indeed, ever soberly\r\nentertained), happily for the country, have not been verified.\r\n\r\nLikely the feeling which would have held the entire South chargeable\r\nwith the crime of one exceptional assassin, this too has died away with\r\nthe natural excitement of the hour.\r\n\r\n16. The incident on which this piece is based is narrated in a newspaper\r\naccount of the battle to be found in the “Rebellion Record.” During the\r\ndisaster to the national forces on the first day, a brigade on the\r\nextreme left found itself isolated. The perils it encountered are given\r\nin detail. Among others, the following sentences occur:\r\n\r\n“Under cover of the fire from the bluffs, the rebels rushed down,\r\ncrossed the ford, and in a moment were seen forming this side the creek\r\nin open fields, and within close musket-range. Their color-bearers\r\nstepped defiantly to the front as the engagement opened furiously; the\r\nrebels pouring in sharp, quick volleys of musketry, and their batteries\r\nabove continuing to support them with a destructive fire. Our\r\nsharpshooters wanted to pick off the audacious rebel color-bearers, but\r\nColonel Stuart interposed: ‘No, no, they’re too brave fellows to be\r\nkilled.’”\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJS1YZ9QWGH80MPQQXFZK","peer_type":"backmatter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKA6JDH1776NW3AE6SBJP","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AKA6EC62BB3065T4QBV36","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:00.207Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:02.703Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}