this thread should be good.
Sherman won just like we defeated Germany and Japan.
Total war works, period.
Sherman ... war criminal general of the traitor Lincoln
Reparations are long overdue.
now we see one of the left’s strategies’ roots. besides marxism. although lenin must’ve known it as he did it spectacularly.
War is hell.
Don’t get into one if you aren’t going to win it.
FUWTS
Yeah .....I think that war is over?
Since then we have turned Dresden Hamburg and Berlin to rubble and Hiroshima and Nagasaki into a glass floored parking lots.
We must count our blessings
'“We can make war so terrible and make [the South] so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.”'
I would venture to say that the folks along Sherman’s route are a little better armed today than they were then.
Like in the old cowboy movies, take out the leader(s) of the mob, and the rest will fizzle.
Allowing any form of mob rule is the first mistake being made...
As one who is not particularly sympathetic to the Confederate cause, I must say that Sherman was morally culpable in many respects for the actions of Union troops. I do not believe, however, that he intentionally ordered his troops to misbehave. There were certainly civilian casualties during the “March to the Sea”. It is also true that Sherman did not order his troops to commit acts of violence against civilians. He did not, however, maintain discipline enough to stop such violence.
I also find it difficult to believe that Sherman intentionally ordered the city of Columbia burned. It is contrary to his behavior upon the occupation of other cities during the campaign. True, he did order Atlanta burned, but only after evacuating the civilian population. If he was engaged routinely in acts of terrorism against the civilian populace, why then did he not burn Savannah or Charleston? Sherman was no angel, and he does bear some of the moral responsibility for the actions of his troops, but it does seem that the burning of Columbia was not part of a terror campaign.
And the good news here in Atlanta is that Sherman is still dead. :-)
The South was right.
I don’t consider Sherman’s March to be any different than the allies’ bombing of Germany and Japan in WW2. War is indeed hell.
It doesn’t surprise me that Sherman created his own propaganda in the field. Sherman hated journalists. Didn’t trust any of them, and didn’t want them anywhere near his campaigns. If they came to camp, he threw them out. He believed they undermined the Union Army’s efforts to win the war, basically helping the enemy with the information they published. Looks like he spun his own war disinformation to the public just like the drive-by media does today.
While in Georgia my Great Great Grandfather’s three year enlistment was up and “Unca Billy” came down and tried to get his unit to re-enlist. The unit politely refused and went home. They had had enough of those Southern boys.
Compare and contrast Sherman’s operation to General Lee’s invasion of the North prior to the Gettysburg battle.
I don’t have them right in front of me, but I believe he (Lee) gave strict specific orders not to mess with the civilians in the areas his Army moved through.
Consider what would be the outcome if the respective Generals had utilized the others tactics.
And then the "he who denied it supplied it" supposition prevails.
The smell....the smell....I love the smell of napalm in the morning...it smells of victory....
If one uses it enough it works every time.