There’s another interesting connection between our region and LSU — William Tecumseh Sherman was their first president (called superintendent at the time).
Here’s the list of presidents of LSU from the university's official website:
https://www.lsu.edu/president/history.php How about t-shirts saying:
Sherman’s Bummers for Burrow
If you don’t understand the term bummer in this context, look here:
https://civilwarhome.com/bummers.html (Note that the pillaging mentioned in the quote at the end happened in South Carolina, "The Mother of Secession." There is much evidence that Sherman's orders were routinely disobeyed in South Carolina, in contrast to relatively good military discipline in Georgia, contrary to current mythology.)
Last Edited: 11/11/2019 12:11:44 PM by OhioCatFan