Sherman necktie

English 2019 December 21 Alternative forms en Sherman's necktie Etymology thumb|A Sherman necktie in the Fort McAllister Historic State Park, Georgia, USA From en Sherman, the surname of Union Army general William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891) + en necktie. During the American Civil War, Sherman ordered the destruction of the rails of railways in order to obstruct the Confederate States Army. Pronunciation en /ˈʃɜːmən ˈnɛktaɪ/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Sherman necktie.wav Southern England en /ˈʃɝmən ˈnɛktaɪ/ GA en Sher man neck tie Noun en US rail transport historical chiefly in the plural A segment of rail that has been heated and twisted into a loop, as a means of destroying a railway. en Sherman's bow tie Sherman's hairpin Jeff Davis's necktie en James Morris Morgan XXVIII Recollections of a Rebel Reefer Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y. Houghton Mifflin CompanyThe Riverside Press Cambridge [Mass.] 1917 244 https://archive.org/details/recollectionsofr00morg/page/244/mode/1up 585312 We were compelled to go by carriage, as the railroads had been destroyed, the fat-pine cross-ties burned to heat the rails and the red-hot rails wrapped around the trees growing near the track. We used to call these iron rails "Sherman's neckties," and the solemn-looking chimneys standing guard over the former sites of once happy homes were called by the natives "Sherman's monuments." on en w:James M. McPherson We are Going to be Wiped Off the Earth Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era The Oxford History of the United States 6 New York, N.Y. w:Oxford University Press 1988 978-0-19-503863-7 paperback New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press 2003 774 https://books.google.com/books?id=GXfGuNAvm7AC&pg=PA774 978-0-19-516895-2 As the Democrats met in Chicago to declare the war a failure, northern soldiers 700 miles away were making "Sherman neckties" out of the last open railroad into Atlanta by heating the rails over a bonfire of ties and twisting the iron around trees. en Jerry Ellis 11 Marching through Georgia: My Walk with Sherman New York, N.Y. Delacorte Press 1995 978-0-385-31182-3 Marching through Georgia: My Walk along Sherman’s Route paperback Athens, Ga. w:University of Georgia Press 2002 74 https://books.google.com/books?id=xW3tirg9SwMC&pg=PA74 978-0-8203-2425-8 I break camp and push down the road to the tiny town of Lithonia. It was here that [William Tecumseh] Sherman saw the first homes on the March to the Sea go up in flames as his men wrecked the railroad, twisting the iron rails into Sherman's Neckties. en Christopher J. Olsen Confederate Families at War in 1864–1865 The American Civil War: A Hands-on History New York, N.Y. Hill and Wang 2006 978-0-8090-9538-4 paperback New York, N.Y. Hill and Wang 2007 214 https://books.google.com/books?id=OkTgvdz7xAQC&pg=PA214 978-0-8090-1640-2 Sherman's army cut a swath of destruction fifty miles wide as it marched leisurely through Georgia without any meaningful Confederate resistance. The men destroyed nearly all property in their path, famously twisting railroad tracks around tree trunks—"Sherman neckties"—so they would never be usable again. en Marc [Josef] Wortman The First Bonfire The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta New York, N.Y. w:PublicAffairs 2009 part VI (War is Cruelty, and You Cannot Refine It) 306 https://books.google.com/books?id=vB_k_G5KMnUC&pg=PA306 978-1-58648-482-8 Sherman, however, had grown to hate the Confederate trains running into Atlanta almost as much as the armies behind the city's earthworks. He declared, "Let the destruction be so thorough that not a rail or tie can be used again." The troops had a two-day-long Sherman necktie party. en Anne Sarah Rubin Conclusion: Rubin’s March Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory Chapel Hill, N.C. w:University of North Carolina Press 2014 232 https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2MJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA232 978-1-4696-1777-0 The Road to Tara Museum had a lot of Gone with the Wind and almost no Sherman, except for one twisted Sherman's necktie. Translations segment of rail that has been heated and twisted into a loop French: fr cravate de Sherman f Italian: it cravatta di Sherman f Ukrainian: uk крава́тка Шермана f Further reading Sherman's neckties en eponyms en American Civil War