What is a Sherman "Neck Tie"?

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What is a Sherman "Neck Tie"?

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Amiyah Mckee · Answer 1

Answer: Sherman's neckties were a railway-destruction tactic used in the American Civil War.

Tianna Harding · Answer 2

Sherman's neckties were a railway-destruction tactic used in the American Civil War. Named after Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army, Sherman's neckties were railway rails destroyed by heating them until they were malleable and twisting them into loops resembling neckties, often around trees. Wikipedia