I didn’t say slavery was a dying institution but the South didn’t go to war to preserve it. They went to war because an army invaded their land and threatened their homes, families and communities.
Homework? You made the claim; the burden of proof is on you.
I’ve already posted, from the Official Records, where Sherman ordered the burning of homes of randomly chosen people and the killing of those people, in Fairmount and Adairsville, Georgia. There was no instruction in that order to ascertain that the chosen murder victims were indeed guilty of shooting at union trains. Just murder a few “at random.” The reply he received from Watkins said both the killing and the arson had been done. That’s more proof of my claims than you have offered to prove yours.
I didn’t say you did Madame. I grew up with that history(which I believe to be bogus) and I’ve heard that argument poisted here a number of times. Sherman got the war over with. “War is cruel’’ he said ‘’the crueler it is the sooner it’s over.