I lived where Sherman marched, sir. I was born in Ringgold, Georgia and lived in his path the first decade or so of my life. And with the occasional exception (”80 Acres of Hell”) the History Channel trumpets the Victors’ Version.
What claims by Southerners are you speaking of? Since you are giving no references, it could be coming from your imagination.
Why did the north need to go to war to preserve the union? Couldn’t the north have made it as a nation on its own, without Dixie? I mean, it only took nine states ratifying the Constitution to set the federal government, and basically the country, in motion. After the South left, there were 22 states left in the union, more than twice the nine required to create it. The vaunted, sainted north couldn’t make it as a nation without the dirty South?
If slavery was a ‘’dying institution’’ why did the South go to war to preserve it? And as to my imagination do your own homework. Go over accounts of people who claim their ancestors property was destroyed with actual accounts and the route of Shermans march.
Why did the South go to war to preserve slavery?