‘What did Sherman do? Win?
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Sherman and his savages raided farms and plantations, Sherman’s men ransacked houses, stole property, set fires. It was an unusually cold winter, harvests were taken or destroyed — “and there was no making up a crop.” People were left to starve, stealing and slaughtering cows, chickens, turkeys, sheep and hogs and taking as much other food–especially bread and potatoes–as they could carry. (These groups of foraging soldiers were nicknamed “burners,” and they burned whatever they could not carry.) The marauding Yankees needed the supplies, but they also wanted to teach Georgians a lesson: “it isn’t so sweet to secede,” one soldier wrote in a letter home, “as [they] thought it would be.”
Terrorists and savages Sherman and his men not only destroyed everything in their path, but murdered the innocent: the elderly, children, the handicapped and raping women and children along the way.
“We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children.”
“The more Indians we can kill this year the fewer we will need to kill the next, because the more I see of the Indians the more convinced I become that they must either all be killed or be maintained as a species of pauper. Their attempts at civilization is ridiculous...”
Sherman vowed to remain in the West “till the Indians are all killed or taken to a country where they can be watched.”
Historians have since speculated that he was suffering from depression or nervous exhaustion, but whatever its cause, the general’s bizarre behavior eventually found its way into the papers, some of which labeled him insane. Even his own troops knew he was insane
“During an assault,” Sherman instructed his troops, “the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.” He chillingly referred to this policy in an 1867 letter to Grant as “the final solution to the Indian problem,” a phrase Hitler invoked some 70 years later William T Sherman
Being drawn and quartered in public in a village square was too good for this monster.
You already said that.