What is a Sherman "Neck Tie"?

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Jaidyn Baker

27 April, 10:04

What is a Sherman "Neck Tie"?

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Kianna Blackburn · Answer 1

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

Billy Davidson · 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