[Restorer]

he let Sherman kill a bunch of teenage kids as a "Christmas present" to him.

The only "Christmas present" I'm aware of that Sherman gave Lincoln was the city of Savannah, which surrendered. What teenage kids are you talking about.

[republicanwizard]

The teenage children that Hood commanded and massacred because of his Southern pride and stupidity and Davis' stubborn insistence on replacing the shrewd Johnson (sp) with the chivalric knight Hood.

[afz400]

"What teenage kids are you talking about."
Teenagers were the only Southern forces left to oppose Sherman. Wheeler's cavalry were the only adults, the rest were under-aged reserves of perhaps 14,000 troops - no match for the 62,000 Union troops. There was absolutely no reason for Sherman to slaughter these people and burn their land and crops and animals - pure cruelty.
In addition Sherman got General Grant to expel all Jews from his army. And Lincoln praised him.
He also was involved in the slaughter of Indians. Sherman was a railroad investor and he lobbied his brother, Senator John Sherman, to allocate federal funds for the transcontinental railroad. "We are not going to let a few thieving, ragged Indians stop and check the progress of the railroad," he wrote to General Grant in 1867.
I find it amazing the number of people who have been dumbed down so much that they can perpetuate the myth that Lincoln was a good man. Read your history.