Well told in the song penned by Robbie Robertson but sung brilliantly by Levon Helm and The Band. It was on hearing Levon sing this I decided to fond out more about this man as I knew nothing about him coming from a quarter of a mile from Robert Burns Cottage here in Ayr. I also love Joan Baez's version of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down which was thd first version I heard.
After Grants Creek and capturing Salisbury, later came the battle fought at Fort York and the Confederates won the battle the last big win for Confederates forces in NC in defense of State Rights, State Rights, and Manifest Destiny were the major driving forces that formed the modern USA, and Indians and African Slavery were just incident that happened to be there.
Exactly, and after the North "freed" the slaves because you know "humanitarian" reasons, they went west and murdered and or put on reservations the native Americans. How anybody can't see the hypocrisy of the Northern narrative, they must have a very low IQ.
When Stoneman was captured in Georgia during the Atlanta campaign, he was attempting to free Union prisoners being held at Camp Oglethorpe in Macon, not Camp Sumpter in Andersonville.
Thanks for the comment. Both prison camps were Stoneman's target (see Sherman's memoirs at www.gutenberg.org/files/4361/4361-h/4361-h.htm and other material), with Andersonville being the larger and more infamous, but Oglethorpe being the first target under his plan. Sherman writes: "On the 26th I received from General Stoneman a note asking permission (after having accomplished his orders to break up the railroad at Jonesboro) to go on to Macon to rescue our prisoners of war known to be held there, and then to push on to Andersonville, where was the great depot of Union prisoners, in which were penned at one time as many as twenty-three thousand of our men, badly fed and harshly treated."
Well told in the song penned by Robbie Robertson but sung brilliantly by Levon Helm and The Band. It was on hearing Levon sing this I decided to fond out more about this man as I knew nothing about him coming from a quarter of a mile from Robert Burns Cottage here in Ayr.
I also love Joan Baez's version of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down which was thd first version I heard.
great song about an interesting piece of American history...thanks for watching!
Chris Hartley's book on Stoneman's Raid features the song as well
@@andrewb1370 Thanks for this. I'll try to get a copy...
How’s they get John Goodman to do the narration!?!?
After Grants Creek and capturing Salisbury, later came the battle fought at Fort York and the Confederates won the battle the last big win for Confederates forces in NC in defense of State Rights, State Rights, and Manifest Destiny were the major driving forces that formed the modern USA, and Indians and African Slavery were just incident that happened to be there.
Exactly, and after the North "freed" the slaves because you know "humanitarian" reasons, they went west and murdered and or put on reservations the native Americans. How anybody can't see the hypocrisy of the Northern narrative, they must have a very low IQ.
When Stoneman was captured in Georgia during the Atlanta campaign, he was attempting to free Union prisoners being held at Camp Oglethorpe in Macon, not Camp Sumpter in Andersonville.
Thanks for the comment. Both prison camps were Stoneman's target (see Sherman's memoirs at www.gutenberg.org/files/4361/4361-h/4361-h.htm and other material), with Andersonville being the larger and more infamous, but Oglethorpe being the first target under his plan.
Sherman writes: "On the 26th I received from General Stoneman a note asking permission (after having accomplished his orders to break up the railroad at Jonesboro) to go on to Macon to rescue our prisoners of war known to be held there, and then to push on to Andersonville, where was the great depot of Union prisoners, in which were penned at one time as many as twenty-three thousand of our men, badly fed and harshly treated."
@@andrewb1370 thanks for this great resource!