[jessduntno]

“Kind of like saying the Nazi’s were alright except for that holocaust thing.”

Well, yeah, except that is the dumbest and least related possible analogy you could possibly come up with. I think the holocaust and Sherman’s wholesale slaughter of southerners is closer, but that’s just my gut reaction to genocidal maniacs in general.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Before one is too hard in condemning Sherman, I think a study of the general oppression and exploitation of Southerners by the Confederate authorities can add a little perspective. It’s no wonder that many southern locales welcomed the advancing Union army as liberators.

[Ditto]

I think the holocaust and Sherman’s wholesale slaughter of southerners is closer...

Really? How many people did Sherman 'slaughter?

[kabumpo]

Please, you mean to write Nazis when referring to them as a group, not Nazi’s. FRpers, please don’t fear to add an unadorned S when making a noun plural.

[kabumpo]

Please, you mean to write Nazis when referring to them as a group, not Nazi’s. FRpers, please don’t fear to add an unadorned S when making a noun plural.

[Nowhere Man]

Well, yeah, except that is the dumbest and least related possible analogy you could possibly come up with. I think the holocaust and Sherman’s wholesale slaughter of southerners is closer, but that’s just my gut reaction to genocidal maniacs in general.

The South did have a great Jewish heritage. IIRC, the Confederate's Vice President and Secretary of War (he did double duty IIRC) was Jebediah Benjamin, a Jew. Also, there was General Order 11 where Grant too the property and expelled Jews from selected areas of the South. It was so bad that even Abraham Lincoln didn't like it and put a stop to it.