Category:Sherman's bummers

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<nowiki>Sherman's bummers; バマーズ; foragers of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's Union army during its March to the Sea and north through South Carolina and North Carolina during the American Civil War; Bummers</nowiki>
Sherman's bummers 
foragers of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's Union army during its March to the Sea and north through South Carolina and North Carolina during the American Civil War
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English: During Sherman's March to the Sea in the American Civil War, General Sherman and his subordinates earned a reputation for destruction and for the lack of discipline of his troops. His marauding stragglers became known as "Sherman's bummers" (History shows examples of failure to discipline).