Yeah. It was all sweetness and light; with malice toward none and charity for all.
ML/NJ
Personally, he lost me at this lie;
“Sherman’s march from Atlanta to Savannah is notorious for its savagery.”
I don’t know why he lost you at that “lie”. He was viscous in burning homes in front of women and children and their husbands weren’t even there. In Savannah, the Union soldiers looted the graves of the wealthy there. To this day they don’t know whose tombstone goes for which grave because the soldiers just piled the tombstones up and dig into the graves.
The ONLY reason Savannah wasn’t burned to the ground was because it was a “Christmas gift” to Abraham Lincoln.
I don’t know how you see that as a “lie”.
Yeah. It was all sweetness and light; with malice toward none and charity for all.
ML/NJ
Sherman skipped through the South with a hand basket passing out daisies? Is that how it happened? Please tell us
Yeah, well I was born on a navy base in Illinois (Great Lakes)-navy brat. Well I lived all over and had a Southern Mom (Virginia) so I remember at all the family reunions (great way to get out of school as they were always in September), the older folks would talk about Sherman and how babies were burned alive in their beds and...an unmentionable thing (whispered) happened to attractive Southern ladies...my Dad was described (Northerner) as a ‘nice guy for a Yankee. The highest words of praise bestowed upon Yankees...by my family.
Is it the truth that as Sherman lay in bed watching the fires and listening to the cries of people attempting to flee or put out the fires, that he prayed for those poor, ignorant people who were trying to blame him and his troops by burning their own houses?
(Saw this gem on T.V. as I surfed one evening...)
