Some LSU history you may not have seen

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Sherman referred to his tenure there as the most enjoyable time of his life.

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n other words, Saban is repeating what Sherman had already said.

Sherman's famous "the country will ne drenched in blood" soliloquoy was made to his colleague David F. Boyd on Christmas Eve 1860 upon hearing the news of South Carolina's secession. Boyd related that Sherman was in tears when he said it.

Sherman and Boyd remained lifelong friends despite serving on opposite sides of the war. When Boyd was captured, Sherman saw to it that he was exchanged. When Boyd became president of the reconstituted LSU after the war, Sherman donated books from his personal collection for the new library.

Sherman tortured South Carolina, too. He left tens of thousands starving after looting and burning their homes. He was a butcher. A cruel bastard.

I have often wondered how a northern general who burned and destroyed the south ends up leading a southern university.

My bad, I don’t know why I thought it was after.

Agreed. Less than 10 percent of White Southerners ownwd slaves, despite the movie depictions and the tremendous "knowledge" of TikTok influences. LSU should NEVER honor Sherman in any way. He was the equivalent of Pol Pot or Castro, in my view.

What else isn’t well known is that Sherman was Commanding General of the US Army when the title for the Baton Rouge Barracks (old LSU campus) was given to LSU…not to the state.

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In addition, Sherman became somewhat mentally unstable during the war, was relieved of command, and President Lincoln was reluctant to give him a second chance...but did.