[Valin]

Oh Sam Sam Sam! You DO realise that anytime soon the neo-confederates will show up and explain to us why uncle Billy is A. Hitler, Attila the hun rolled into one. :-)

Short story. I recall reading that there was a man who owned a large piece of land in Va. who made it a term of his willl that his heirs could not sell the land to anyone named Sherman...first or last name. And this was fairly recent.

"Grant stood by me when I was crazy..I stood by him when he was drunk. And now we stand by each other."
W.T. Sherman

[SAMWolf]

Oh Yeah , I realize that.

He is hated in the South, he was one of the first proponents of "total war" and unfortunately he ended up practicing it on fellow Americans.

[Darksheare]

Heck, I read in a military history magazine that W.T.Sherman was cast in the same mold as Ghengis Khan and A. Hun.
That he could 'scratch his ankle without stooping over' and other idiotic tripe.
Made me laugh my backside off.

Have to admit, the end of the war was brutal for both sides.