Posted on 09/03/2019 5:05:43 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
President Abraham Lincoln receives a telegram from General Sherman stating "Atlanta is ours, and fairly won"
If you believe ‘FAIRLY WON’ means making war on American Civilians then you have a problem.
Sherman and Grant should have been court martialed for making war on non-combatants and hung.
Amen.
” Fairly won “ ?
At the expense of the innocent non-combatants who were killed, and burned out of their homes and businesses ?
Mr. Lincoln’s unconstitutional war, and “ fairly “, are not compatible .
“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
Major General William Tecumseh Sherman
Agree. For decades, we've been fed the revisionist take on the war of Northern aggression.
Sherman in today's America would have been labeled a fascist, bigot, racist, Nazi.
Now, here we are. Warshington D.C. and the whole cabal screwing up our nation.
In 1944 he would have commanded 3rd army in Europe.
Wrong. They were suppressing a rebellion on orders of the President, and approved by congress, and authorized by the laws of the United States and the constitution.
>>In 1944 he would have commanded 3rd army in Europe.<<
Highly doubtful. He’d likely be in prison for the slaughter of indigenous American inhabitants...Indians.
And we need to remember...... the south fired the first shots
How were there any telegraph lines to send the message from Sherman near Atlanta to Washington? Wouldn’t the war have destroyed most of them?
A watershed event.
That was not an issue in 1944
State secession is not unconstitutional.
The telegraph lines followed the RR tracks and it was the cavalry’s job to make sure they weren’t cut.
What, against the Slave Power South?
Today's Left would think the Confederacy--not Sherman--worse than Nazis.
He'd be as welcome a war hero among them as Zukov was by the Soviets.
The garrison at Fort Sumter was there to enforce Lincoln’s insane tariff. It was given every opportunity to abandon the fort. Lincoln wanted the Southerners to fire the first shot, much as FDR wanted the Japanese to initiate WW2 at Pearl Harbor.
NEA history books have successfully indoctrinated the masses.
The only casualty at Fort Sumter was a horse. When the garrison finally surrendered, the South Carolina brigade saluted the northerners as they departed the harbor.
The Signal Corp of the army did an excellent job of keeping the telegraph system up and operating. I would expect the route would have been from Atlanta across NW Georgia into TN then to Nashville, TN then into OH or WV then across PA, or Md to DC.
>>And we need to remember...... the south fired the first shots<<
...at an invading army. Good grief!
Would we now fire the first shot if Chinese army units landed on Galveston island?
The South seceded from the union, creating a separate country.
Furthermore, Lincoln, the great emancipator, was quoted on numerous occasions fighting the war..not to free slaves, but to preserve the union.
Lincoln’s letter to Horace Greeley:
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
In his own words.
Sherman/Sheridan were responsible for the death of thousands of native Americans. In fact, Sheridan coined the phrase, “the only good Indian is a dead Indian.”
War is hell...granted, but in today’s society some of these guys would be charged with war crimes with utilizing tactics against civilians.
"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking." -- William T. Sherman
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