re: The Georgia Bulldogs are looking for a new fight song.

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In other news, Sherman only burned Atlanta as a part of a trail of ashes he decided to leave after he got his arse kicked and lost half his men at Kennesaw Mountain, while confederate forces played the same song right back at him. It really pissed him off, so that's when he decided he'd start burning everything down from that point forward. True story.

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Part of it might be true, but not all of it. Sherman had decided that destroying the populace was the only way to win the war before he was ever deployed to Georgia. He burned a swathe of Mississippi before he even entered Georgia.