Posted on 09/30/2010 3:55:02 AM PDT by golux
“My Southern subsistence farmer family was in Sherman’s path. None of them were starved, murdered or assaulted while Sherman was there. In fact their world got a lot safer with the arrival of Sherman’s army.”
In WWll, a lot of people in France got on fine with the Germans, too. They couldn’t help it if they were “lucky” like that. It happens. It’s good that they were so fortunate.
Maywood is the city that fired all city employees, and contracted out.
More men like that there would be fewer men like that.
Just got to this post. belive me they will I learned later to seal the chambers with wax nothing like a Colt Walker loaded heavy and all six rounds going off at once!
Lees, what are you talking about?
Col K., can you possibly be serious?
About Sherman? Yes. I think his "crimes" are exaggerated and often ignores the context of wartime brutality that travels with all armies. And many Upper South communities fared better after Sherman evicted the oppressive Confederate usurpers who were hostile to the unionist sentiments of most of the population of those areas of the South.
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