[Conserev1]

Even after surrender Sherman had to burn Atlanta to the ground!
Yankee ways and Yankee deeds never forgotten and still persist to the day! Never Forget!

[laplata]

Total war.

[celmak]

"Never Forget?"

Democrats fought for slavery then and still do! Democrat Slavers ways and Democrat Slavers deeds never forgotten and still persist to the day!

[tenthirteen]

I believe Sherman’s march on and destruction of Atlanta occurred in September 1864, after which he seized Savannah and presented it as a Christmas gift to President Lincoln. The surrender by General Lee occurred in April 1865. Sherman did in no way destroy Atlanta after the surrender. Not sure where you got this from.

[laplata]

Even after surrender Sherman had to burn Atlanta to the ground!

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Lee surrendered in early April, 1865. Atlanta burned months before that.

[Ditto]

Even after surrender Sherman had to burn Atlanta to the ground!

Do you have any idea what you are talking about.

First when Sherman was in Atlanta, the war was still very much hot and heavy. There had been no surrender.

Second, Atlanta was not "burned" to the ground. Go to Atlanta today and there are still many fine antebellum structures existing. Sherman focused on their 'industrial' and transportation infrastructure.

[BroJoeK]

Conserev1: "Even after surrender Sherman had to burn Atlanta to the ground!
Yankee ways and Yankee deeds never forgotten and still persist to the day! Never Forget!"

Conserev1: "The city was surrendered! Dude! Sherman decided to burn it!
What other city was burnd to the ground after surrender and hostilities ceased! "

First, it's important to remember that Confederate forces invaded & operated in Union states wherever and whenever they had the chance, including: Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arizona and others not directly connected, such as New Mexico, Colorado, California and even Vermont.
Jefferson Davis' plan to invade Illinois was canceled only because of Grant's 1862 victories at Forts Henry and Donelson.

Second, while Confederate troops were usually very well behaved within the Confederacy, once outside it, then, well not so much.
They always, like Sherman in Georgia, "lived off the land" and left trails of pillage and destruction along every trip north.
Yes, some of Lee's troops in Pennsylvania did offer to "pay" for their pillage, but it was in Confederate money worthless to northern farmers.

Third, there are very few confirmed reports of Civil War soldiers -- Union or Confederate -- murdering, kidnapping or raping civilians, and certainly not as acts of policy, but most of those reports we do have come from Confederate troops invading Union states.
The biggest example of that came on August 21, 1863, when William Quantrill led Quantrill's Raid into Lawrence, Kansas, killing about 200 unarmed men, plundering and burning the town.

Chambersburg, Pennsylvania is another example, invaded by Confederate forces three different times, each time suffering destruction:

1. "October 10, 1862, Confederate Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, with 1,800 cavalrymen, raided Chambersburg, destroying $250,000 of railroad property and taking 500 guns, hundreds of horses, and [kidnapping] at least "eight young colored men and boys."[38]
   They failed, however, to accomplish one of the main targets of the raid: to burn the railroad bridge across the Conococheague Creek at Scotland, five miles (8 km) north of town.[39]"

2. "During the early days of the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign, a Virginia cavalry brigade under Brig. Gen. Albert G. Jenkins occupied the town and burned several warehouses and Cumberland Valley Railroad structures and the bridge at Scotland."

3. "The following year, Chambersburg was invaded for a third time, as cavalry dispatched from the Shenandoah Valley by Jubal Early arrived.[5]
   On July 30, 1864, a large portion of the town was burned down under orders from Brig. Gen. John McCausland for failing to provide a ransom of $500,000 in US currency, or $100,000 in gold.[42][43]

   "Among the few buildings left standing was the Masonic Temple, which had been guarded under orders by a Confederate mason.[44]
   Norland, the home of Republican politician and editor Alexander McClure, was burned even though it was well north of the main fire.

   " 'Remember Chambersburg' soon became a Union battle cry.[45]"

Remember, this happened long before General Sherman even thought of marching to Atlanta.

Point is: the idea of "scorched earth" was not a Union invention.
The Confederacy was familiar and practiced it as the occasions arose.

[0.E.O]

Yankee ways and Yankee deeds never forgotten and still persist to the day! Never Forget!

That's the same kind of sentiment that modern day black leaders use when they blame slavery for all their ills and call for reparations.