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| - The neckties were created in accordance with an explicit order from Sherman in his Atlanta Campaign, dated July 18, 1864: After three days, only one Confederate railroad line leading into Atlanta remained intact. Not all rail destruction followed Sherman's order; in May 1863, Arthur Fremantle wrote in his diary that near Jackson, Mississippi, he saw piles of bent rails on cold embers, but does not say they were twisted.
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| - The neckties were created in accordance with an explicit order from Sherman in his Atlanta Campaign, dated July 18, 1864: After three days, only one Confederate railroad line leading into Atlanta remained intact. Not all rail destruction followed Sherman's order; in May 1863, Arthur Fremantle wrote in his diary that near Jackson, Mississippi, he saw piles of bent rails on cold embers, but does not say they were twisted. Sherman's neckties were also a feature of Sherman's March to the Sea, a campaign designed to bring total war, serious destruction, to the Confederate States of America. Sherman implemented "scorched earth" policies; he and Union Army commander Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant believed that the Civil War would end only if the Confederacy's strategic, economic, and psychological capacities for warfare were decisively broken. In the early days of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of late 1864, the Confederates employed similar tactics against Sherman's supply line, the Western and Atlantic Railroad from Chattanooga to Atlanta. The rails deformed by fire were known to the soldiers of the Army of Tennessee as "Old Mrs. Lincoln's Hair Pins."
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