"Is All Dem Yankees Dat's Passing?," January 7, 1865, Harper's Weekly Magazine

"IS ALL DEM YANKEES DAT'S PASSING?" One of the most amusing as well most striking features of SHERMAN'S march through Georgia was the utter amazement of the people, black and white, of the hitherto unvisited regions through which the army passed, at the immense numbers of the "Yankees." Our Artist sends us a portrait from life of one of the "colored population," who watched, hour after hour, the endless column of Blue-Coats cheerily filing by the plantation, from which, probably, she was never ten miles in her life, and finally broke out: "Is all dem Yankee's dat's passing?" Another exclaimed, to a daughter of her master, "Law! Miss HATTIE, jess look dar in the road: dem Yankees like so many blackbirds!"