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Dr. E. W. Branyon’s Bio
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offensive of the war. He surrendered in Greens- boro to “War is Hell” William Tecumseh Sherman whose march through the South decimated a 200 mile-wide swath across Geor- gia, and South and North Carolina. Wrote Walker:
Johnson went from his command to Sherman on a tender of a locomotive and the whole thing was transacted. We never saw a Yankee. There was no humiliation, no exaltation on their part. We were only told to lay down our arms and go home with the sad impression that War is a very bad thing and is justified only in self- defense of inalienable right of life, liberty and property....
The memory of those days becomes more horrible to my mind the more often I think about it. The happy homes broken up, the blood, death and destruction incidents hereto, and how it all should have been prevented by ‘Thou shalt love they neighbor as thyself.’ ....
Pa told the negroes they were free and we hitched our war horses to the plow and made the best of it ‘till now. None of us did any heroic deeds of valor, just
