OhioCatFan

KiwiHead said: "You do know that Sherman did no such thing as burning Atlanta...that was done by the locals.....however he did make Georgia howl."

This is true, and in the last few decades scholars who have examined the record, including the definitive work on the March to the Sea by Professor Emeritus Lee Kennett, at the University of Georgia, have shown that in Georgia, unlike in South Carolina, destruction was with rare exception, targeted and limited to things that would hurt the CSA war effort -- railroads, crops, grain stores, factories, etc. There was very little destruction of homes and other types of buildings. One exception was the Vilage of Millen that was burned to the ground because troops were enraged at the squalid condition of near-by Camp Lawton and the removal of the POWs they had planned to free. I have personally travelled the route of the 17th Corps on the March to the Sea through Georgia and can personally attest to the number of towns, villages and cities that the Union Army passed through that have their antebellum homes intact. A very good example of this is Milledgeville, the capital of Georgia the time, that has its antebellum homes as well as the capitol building and old governor's mansion untouched by the Union Army. :usa:

Let me compliment posters on the way you folks have conducted yourself in this thread. It's been very informative to me. While I knew about WTS being your first president, I did not know about the things he did for LSU after the war. That was very interesting.

However, there was one statement made here that cannot be allowed to stand. Sherman, while your first president, was not your first football coach. He was the first football coach at Ohio University. This was established on the OHIO fan board (LINK a number of years ago, and we have all the fake facts at our disposal to prove it. Real facts are that his foster father, Tom Ewing was in the first graduating class at OHIO, and WTS grew up just two counties north of the OHIO campus. Legend has it that WTS came to Athens County to work in the salt works here, and then on weekends came on campus and volunteered as our coach and actually started a football team before those jokers at Princeton and Rutgers ever got into the act.

Feel free to come to our board. We have a thread devoted to Joey that you might find of interest.

Lots of people in Athens and on the BA board are rooting for LSU and Joey. It's a very compelling story that links our institutions together in a manner that is somewhat unique since your first president was our first football coach. :rolleyes:

Finally, for the record we are the real OHIO. The junior institution in Columbus was not established until the decade after the Late Rebellion. Many on our board don't like Ohio A&M (it's original name) very much at all, and will be pulling for LSU and Joey should the game materialize. :geauxtigers: