英语词汇sherman-s bummers的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Sherman’s bummers; Sherman’s hairpins; Sherman’s monuments; Sherman’s sentinels. Civil War Union soldiers, often deserters, who looted and burned civilian property, among other offenses, were called “bummers” by Southerners. Many of them rode on the flanks of Union general William Tecumseh Sherman and were known as Sherman’s bummers. Sherman’s name also became hated in the form of Sherman’s hairpins, the 265 miles of mutilated railroad tracks that General Sherman’s troops in their famous March to the Sea heated with fires of railroad ties and twisted into grotesque shapes so that they could not be repaired. These were also called “Jeff Davis neck- ties” or “Lincoln gimlets.” The general’s name was anathema, too, in Sherman’s monuments, which referred to the many ci- vilian homes his troops burned to the ground in their march through the South. Often chimneys were the only part of these houses left standing, and Southerners bitterly dubbed them Sherman’s monuments as well as Sherman’s sentinels. The pro- cess of destroying the railroad tracks was described by an engi- neer on the scene: “The method of destruction is simple, but very effective. Two ingenious instruments have been made for this purpose. One of them is a clasp, which locks under the rail. It has a ring in the top, into which is inserted a long lever, and the rail is then ripped from the sleepers [ties]. The sleepers are then piled in a heap and set on fire, the rails roasting in the flames until they bend of their own weight. When sufficiently heated, each rail is taken off by wrenches fitting closely over the ends, and, by turning in opposite directions, it is so twisted that even a rolling machine could not bring it back into shape.” See war is hell.

词汇	sherman-s bummers
词源	Sherman’s bummers; Sherman’s hairpins; Sherman’s monuments; Sherman’s sentinels. Civil War Union soldiers, often deserters, who looted and burned civilian property, among other offenses, were called “bummers” by Southerners. Many of them rode on the flanks of Union general William Tecumseh Sherman and were known as Sherman’s bummers. Sherman’s name also became hated in the form of Sherman’s hairpins, the 265 miles of mutilated railroad tracks that General Sherman’s troops in their famous March to the Sea heated with fires of railroad ties and twisted into grotesque shapes so that they could not be repaired. These were also called “Jeff Davis neck- ties” or “Lincoln gimlets.” The general’s name was anathema, too, in Sherman’s monuments, which referred to the many ci- vilian homes his troops burned to the ground in their march through the South. Often chimneys were the only part of these houses left standing, and Southerners bitterly dubbed them Sherman’s monuments as well as Sherman’s sentinels. The pro- cess of destroying the railroad tracks was described by an engi- neer on the scene: “The method of destruction is simple, but very effective. Two ingenious instruments have been made for this purpose. One of them is a clasp, which locks under the rail. It has a ring in the top, into which is inserted a long lever, and the rail is then ripped from the sleepers [ties]. The sleepers are then piled in a heap and set on fire, the rails roasting in the flames until they bend of their own weight. When sufficiently heated, each rail is taken off by wrenches fitting closely over the ends, and, by turning in opposite directions, it is so twisted that even a rolling machine could not bring it back into shape.” See war is hell.
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