The story is told that when Sherman marched to the sea, a little old lady refused to leave her home in rural Georgia. She stood on the front porch and saw the homes and the fields of her neighbors burning across the valley. As Sherman’s army came closer and finally started down the road to her farm, she was unable to stand by and do nothing. She took her broom and stood defiantly in the middle of the road.

The marching soldiers saw her and came to a halt. The captain shouted, “Old lady, do you expect to win the war with a broom?”