[Clemenza]

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

It sickens me that some of those who rightfully condemn the pendejos who are flying the Mexican flag over the American flag, would actually fly the flag of the confederacy over the Stars and Stripes (see the South Carolina state house controversy a few years back).

[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?

[Neville72]

(Gen. Wm. T. Sherman)One of my heroes since childhood:


Mine too, Clemenza though as I grew up in the South when I sang the praises of Sherman it brought about much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Sherman brought the concept of total war on the South and "made Georgia howl"......then he made South Carolina howl louder. Single handedly gave Lincoln the election in 1864 by sacking Atlanta.

Here's my favorite quote by my favorite Civil War General

"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace"

[PackerBronco]

I believe that Sherman once said of California:

"We fought a war to get California and I dare say that we'll have to fight another war to get rid of it!"

[Cannoneer No. 4]

If Sherman is your hero, you must really love this guy.

[MamaB]

So a man who wanted to kill all the Native Americans is your hero? He would be anything but a hero to me since I have NA ancestors.

[rogue yam]

It sickens me that some of those who rightfully condemn the pendejos who are flying the Mexican flag over the American flag, would actually fly the flag of the confederacy over the Stars and Stripes (see the South Carolina state house controversy a few years back).

The issue was not about flying the Confederate flag over the United States flag and you know it. Cut the crap.

[FreedomPoster]

On 9/12/2001, I quoted Sherman in a rant I sent out to about 20 friends:

"We cannot change the hearts of those people, but we can make war so terrible...[and] make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it."

We fought war in that war, from the time of Sherman, through WWII. We probably need to fight it again that way.

[MadIvan]

This is my favourite American Civil War General:

General James Longstreet

I admire him for the following reasons -

1. He advised against General Lee's approach at Gettysburg.
2. He was right.
3. And he was a Republican.

I dare say, he was the most "modern" general in terms of understanding the technology of the times as well.

Regards, Ivan

[JamesP81]

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

And yet, Robert E. Lee is studied more closely at West Point than is Sherman. I wonder why that is?

Lee was probably the greatest general that America ever produced. Period. He took an army with a great number of men in it who had no shoes and inflicted a sustained 2:1 kill/loss ratio against a much larger and more technologically sophisticated enemy over the course of the whole war. If Grant and Sherman had been 1/10th the generals that Lee was the Civil war would've lasted 4 months instead of 4 years.