[wardaddy]

actually Grant was decent with his terms to my ancestors as was Sherman.

I am amused as a Southerner though that no one gave a rat’s ass how the Federals waged a total war down here on our own soil against kinsmen and yet we wail incessantly over silly shite like Abu Graib and insulting Islamopigs.

We are so soft nowadays.

Ulysses would not be proud.

[Travis McGee]

Amen. Both Grant and Sherman understood that it was no mercy to draw out a war of starvation. Get it done harshly, swiftly, and get it over.

[Texas Mulerider]

I am amused as a Southerner though that no one gave a rat’s ass how the Federals waged a total war down here on our own soil against kinsmen and yet we wail incessantly over silly shite like Abu Graib and insulting Islamopigs.

The media goes apoplectic with outrage whenever one of our missiles goes slightly off course and causes "collateral damage."

Must be amusing to the citizens of Vicksburg.

[JamesP81]

Ulysses would not be proud.

No, I'm afraid he wouldn't. Neither would Lee, or Patton, or Blackjack Pershing, or Chesty Puller, or Nimitz. We have a great military leader in Gen. Petraeus, but it's a shame how Congress has conducted itself during this war.