[Pelham]

GREATEST General of the war. One of my heroes since childhood:

What's best for you, his wholesale arson or the random execution of civilians?

[Clemenza]

Random execution of civilians? A bald face lie endlessly repeated by neoconfederate inbreds who also believe that "the war had nothing to do with slavery."

The arson and destruction of the railroads was essential to end supply lines to the west/interior and cut off access to the port of Savannah. It was brutal, but necessary.

So I guess you support politically correct warfare. If thats the case, you wouldn't love the south (see Andersonville, Antietam, Fort Pillow).

The GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, was triumphant in fact and in principle.

[Bubbatuck]

Sorry... the South lost. That's what happens to losers in war - they get hurt. It can't be any other way.

Was Shock and Awe immoral in Iraq because innocent people were killed? Was the bombing of Dresden (a case of arson far worse than anything Sherman did) immoral?

No... there should be no expectation that a war will be fought gently.

[PzLdr]

What's best for me is that he broke the South's will to wage war, and won the war.

And as for atrocities, do the words "Fort Pillow", "Lawrence, Kansas", and "Centralia, Missouri" ring a bell? The first was of course, committed by that paragon of Southern generalship, N.B Forrest. The latter two were committed by bushwhackers under Confederate authority, and never disowned by the Confederacy. It's funny how we're supposed to admire Forrest's generalship, but not Sherman's.

[Non-Sequitur]

What's best for you, his wholesale arson or the random execution of civilians?

You're just miffed that he won.