Posted on 12/21/2018 4:57:30 AM PST by Bull Snipe
President Lincoln receives at telegram reading:
"I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.” YOS, General William T. Sherman
Sherman’s March to the Sea was complete. He lived up to his promise to “make Georgia howl”. During the course of the six week campaign across Georgia, Sherman’s armies had destroyed 300 miles of railroad, confiscated 22,000 head of livestock, confiscated or destroyed 4,750 tons of corn and 5,250 tons of fodder. Estimated value of the property destroyed or confiscated was 100 million dollars. In it was a very bad December for the Confederacy. Earlier in month, General Hood’s Army of the Tennessee had suffered a crushing defeat at the hand of General Thomas ’s Army of the Cumberland at Nashville Tennessee. And now, Savannah, one of the few remaining ports open to the Confederacy, was in the hands of the Abraham Lincoln’s Army and Navy.
Ugh.
I read his autobiography. He use to actually call the confederates “democrats”.
Sherman was a war criminal. I have read that he knew Lincoln would not approve of his actions so he cut off all communications until his terrible deed had been completed.
IMHO, I sometimes wonder what would have happened if lincoln hadn’t been elected in 1860, or if he hadn’t suspended the Constitution to start the war. or if The united states had really been a united states instead of the federal government being all powerful and deciding to kill its ex citizens for leaving the lopsided political circus of D.c.in 1861
My cultural heritage lies in the old south. Sherman’s name is still reviled in some areas of Georgia and South Carolina. Yet Sherman executed his part of the war to insure victory, not to win the hearts and minds of the locals. In my opinion it was Sherman who defeated Lee, not Grant. Sherman denied Lee the means of resistance
Not true. Grant and Sherman briefed Lincoln before the campaign began. Lincoln knew full what Sherman intended to do while marching through Georgia.
The winners write the history. For good or ill. No Geneva convention in 1865. All’s fair in love and war.
“Forget It Jake … it’s Chinatown “
along with General Sheridan, who burnt the Shenandoah valley to the ground in the autumn of 1864.
The howling has long since been replaced by the whining.
Sherman was no war criminal. He was a great patriot who helped Grant bring a swift end to a war which should never have happened in the first place.
A handful of aristicratic Democrat slavers started a war against the Republic and lost. Democrats were traitors then, they are traitors now. Little has changed.
Sherman was a goon. So was his boss.
Grant and Sherman are two of the greatest patriots in US history.
The Democrat rebellion was waged to keep a handful of aristicratic landowners from getting their hands dirty farming their own land. They ignited a civil war for this purpose. They lost.
Aristocratic Democrats are still scumbags and traitors today.
"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality… I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied every thing. “
right on.
Grant was a patriot (and also a hard-working farmer who worked his own land, holding aristocratic Democrat slavers in contempt) who defended his country against an armed rebellion. He fought for the Union; I never claimed he was a radical abolitionist.
Sherman was no war criminal. He was a great patriot who helped Grant bring a swift end to a war which should never have happened in the first place.
A handful of aristicratic Democrat slavers started a war against the Republic and lost. Democrats were traitors then, they are traitors now. Little has changed.
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Well stated. Lincoln was very magnanimous in his treatment of the South after the surrender.
Davis, Lee and the rest could have been arrested and hung for sedition. Lincoln wanted to heal the country after the South savaged it...one of our best Presidents ever..(Along with Harry Truman).
What Southern leader also believed that?
actually, Grant worked his farm with a slave named William Jones. The slave was given to him by his father in law, Fredrick Dent. Grant kept the slave for about a year than gave the man his freedom. Jones could have been sold for 800-1000 dollars, Grant chose to free Jones, in spite of desperately needing the money.
That is correct. His (Grant’s) wife was a Southern lady who supported the Union while also owning slaves.
Grant was always uncomfortable with the ‘peculiar institution’ but was no abolitionist zealot. He was always a patriot first.
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