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 Posted: Mon Aug 2nd, 2010 01:21 am
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 Speaking of slaves, I wonder why no one has ever attempted a drama based on the tragic Ebenezer Creek incident. This is when Union Brigadier General Jefferson C Davis and his brigade raced across  Ebenezer Creek in Georgia in 1864. Davis ruthlessly left a large number of runaway slaves and their children who had been accompanying the Union army stranded on the other side of the creek by taking away the pontoon bridge. Wheeler's Confederate cavalry was bearing down hard on the slaves and Davis's men.

Davis did this to rid himself of the large entourage that was slowing down his column and also consumed valuable resources to feed and shelter.

Many slaves tried to swim the creek in desperation, but drowned in the attempt. Others were killed or recaptured by Wheeler's troopers and returned to their slave masters.

This tragic scene could be either the dramatic start of a movie about Georgian slaves during and after Sherman's March or the end of such a movie.

It might be too controversial though. Davis was never reprimanded for his actions, not even by Sherman.