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So... since I have no pictures of it, I will put up some pictures of the General Tucumseh Sherman Statue right on Central Park South and Fifth Ave.
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Most of you have seen it before, but it was always covered in bird crap. Well, they cleaned it up, replated it (and set little golden spikes so pigeons don't land on it). It looks great.
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For those of you not familiar with General Sherman, he is often painted as a horrible man, particularly in the lands that precipitated the American Civil War and most particularly in Georgia. General Sherman decided, as a matter of war, to divide the rebelling Southern Slave States in two by marching from Union territory through Georgia. Along the way he leveled most of the items in his path. It was General Sherman who took and burned Atlanta (as portrayed in Gone With The Wind).
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He ended his first March in Savannah, but didn't burn the city as it was uniquely beautiful, and he had already accomplished his goal (of dividing the slave states).
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General Sherman ultimately accepted the surrender of Jefferson Davis - President (by acclamation) of the slave states that rebelled and called "champion of a slave society and embodied the values of the planter class," and during the rebels' convention.
