Sep 13 2007
Sherman Flame and Slaughter
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By Adam Engel
9/13/07
Sherman’s march of flame and slaughter. Sherman slash and burn and ruthless. “War is Hell,” Sherman Grant’s right arm. Grant and Sherman big cigars glow cities trail of ashes. Sherman’s receding hairline scraggly beard lean tough Sherman inventing Modern Warfare. Scorched earth. Prometheus gave Man fire and Sherman smeared it all over Atlanta. Lincoln in Washington and Seward, Stanton, waited for Grant and Sherman waited for it all to end. Lincoln gangly dark obscenely tall. Warm-hearted story-teller, killer. Stanton squat and cold. Abrubt. Means business: these men had work to do. Grant and Sherman’s muddy uniforms; Lincoln, Stanton’s musty suits. Orchestrating slaughter to preserve the Union and wage slavery exterminate chattel slavery the factory’s cheaper and share-croppers. Now we live in the Union they preserved. No such myths as Lincoln, Stanton. No such statues as Grant, Sherman. Once, the Yankees beat the Braves in the world series in four straight games SLAUGHTERED ‘em I felt heat of Sherman burning down Atlanta. History transmogrified to game.
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