Posted on 12/22/2019 4:23:47 AM PST by Bull Snipe
"I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition and about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" was over. During the campaign General Sherman had made good on his promise d “to make Georgia howl”. Atlanta was a smoldering ruin, Savannah was in Union hands, closing one of the last large ports to Confederate blockade runners. Sherman’s Army wrecked 300 miles of railroad and numerous bridges and miles of telegraph lines. It seized 5,000 horses, 4,000 mules, and 13,000 head of cattle. It confiscated 9.5 million pounds of corn and 10.5 million pounds of fodder, and destroyed uncounted cotton gins and mills. In all, about 100 million dollars of damage was done to Georgia and the Confederate war effort.
The final result of the Aggressive North’s onerous, inhumane taxes on the South, was the death of many, and Sherman’s march to the sea of great destruction.
How are those taxes working out for you?
Taxes pay my retirement, they pay my medical, they pave the roads etc. In all, they work just fine for me.
“Aggressive North’s onerous, inhumane taxes on the South”
I can’t find evidence of this.
http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/Web/THM1861?OpenDocument
“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
- William Tecumseh Sherman
They pay for James Comey to trample the Constitution.
Inevitable after the disaster at Appomattox.
The war was a result of the Democrat slave owners attempt to split the nation in two.
Remind you of anything that’s happening now???
“The war was a result of the Democrat slave owners attempt to split the nation in two.”
Is this a reference to Thomas Jefferson and others breaking away from Britain?
Headed home to Savannah now for Christmas. I love to tell the story of Savannah being spared and presented as a Christmas gift. Though it was really a war prize and a gold mine of supplies to fund more raping and pillaging, it all the same was spared and remains the most beautiful city in America.
One of the consequences of loosing a war.
Savannah was spared the wrath of Sherman’s army because it surrendered. Once it surrendered, Sherman had no reason to make war on the city.
I wholeheartedly agree. Even my dad didn't like my point of view. However, if one side wants war, then give it to them.
Excellent post. We are losing to Democrats precisely because we do not have the proper perspective of war. We must have treason trials over all of this. Now.
Long live Gen. Sherman.
And yet is was Lincoln’s use of the railroad as a spy transportation network that aided in the North winning the war. The railroad was not as utilized in the south as it was in the North. And when the South caught on much later in the war, the damage to the South had been done and it was too late to recover from. The North’s ultimate weapon against the South and greatly underestimated to this day was at the time the railroad. It is why the North destroyed railroad tracks in the South and guarded them in the North. This is one of the few unsung heros of the Civil War that many people do not know about.
Because I mention railroads as being an unsung hero, I am not for them as mass transit. Nor am I promulgating this to have more railway mass transit. This is just a not so well known fact about the Civil War. Usually, only the die-hard Civil War buffs typically know about this.
Losing sucks.
That’s why we love winning.
A little later than that. Your reference was to men freeing themselves from a king.
In hell.
And you say, “One of the consequences of loosing a war.”
I agree.
CIVIL WAR BLOOD TAX
The Civil War was caused by Northern slavery against the South. The South was paying 75% of the nation’s taxes which was a holdover from the War of 1812. The tax was never repealed.
Taxes get repealed by blood or poverty.
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