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.
I didn’t say slavery was a dying institution but the South didn’t go to war to preserve it. They went to war because an army invaded their land and threatened their homes, families and communities.
Homework? You made the claim; the burden of proof is on you.
I’ve already posted, from the Official Records, where Sherman ordered the burning of homes of randomly chosen people and the killing of those people, in Fairmount and Adairsville, Georgia. There was no instruction in that order to ascertain that the chosen murder victims were indeed guilty of shooting at union trains. Just murder a few “at random.” The reply he received from Watkins said both the killing and the arson had been done. That’s more proof of my claims than you have offered to prove yours.