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Thursday, March 23, 2017
Sherman's neckties
Sherman's neckties
were a railway-destruction tactic used in the
American Civil War
. Named after
Maj. Gen.
William Tecumseh Sherman
of the
Union Army
, Sherman's neckties were
railway
rails destroyed by heating them until they were
malleable
and twisting them into loops resembling
neckties
, often around trees. Since the
Confederacy
had limited supplies of iron, and few foundries to roll the rails, this destruction was very difficult to repair.
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