“THE —— YANKEES”
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When Sherman’s army was making its great march through Georgia the colored people were, of course, very much excited over the news of the approach of the Northern army. They had very little idea of what Northern soldiers looked like, but had commonly heard them spoken of as “the dam Yankees.” In a certain part of Georgia, when they heard of the approach of the great army, the darkies held a prayer-meeting, and one old fellow prayed—“O Lawd, bress Massa Linkum, an’ bress Gin’l Sherman. O Lawd, he’s one o’ us. He got a white skin, but he got a black heart, he one o’ us. An’, O Lawd, bress all dem dam Yankees!”