re: LSU's first president pays a visit to the great state of South Carolina

well, it was a joke based in history and truth....after Sherman marched thru Georgia, the motto of his army as they moved north was "make Carolina scream..."

now (and it seems like the 1055th time that I've explained this)

Sherman did some big things for LSU...

when the Army left Baton Rouge in the mid-1870's Sherman transferred the original Pentagon Barracks (now part of the State Capital complex) to LSU, which was home to LSU until the present campus opened up in the mid 1920's....Huey Long's purchase of the Pentagon Barracks for the new State Capital provided funding for campus expansion...

there are several Sherman items floating around Baton Rouge and LSU...he donated books out of his own library to LSU...

one of the big campus mysteries is the disapperance of his portrait from Boyd Hall in the mid 1970's....