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What name was given to the railroad tracks that were destroyed by Shermans army?
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Sherman's bowties. (where a bowties is the short neck tie worn in a not around the neck) Sherman ordered the railroads to be destroyed so that they could not be rebuilt. The troops built large fires and heated the iron rails. WHen they were hot, they would pick it up and bend it around a tree such that was permanently deformed.
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