Triumphal March of Sherman’s Army Into Atlanta And Subsequent Movements in Verse

“But Sherman laughed at such alarms and lit a fresh segar.”

This moving lyrical work celebrates one of the most controversial military campaigns of the American Civil War – Sherman’s March to the Sea. Numerous stanzas reference specific battles, generals, and the physical landscape from the victor’s perspective. The work was ‘composed and respectfully dedicated to the Heroes of the Georgia Campaign’ by W.F. Wilder of the 18th Wisconsin Infantry. Undated, but likely printed around 1865, shortly after the conclusion of the Civil War, though the lyrics reference the conflict as ongoing (Soon Sumpter’s Wall We Hope to Scale).