My brother lives in Georgia and reports that Sherman continues to be despised.
Depends if one is a carpetbagger or not, I should know...
“My brother lives in Georgia and reports that Sherman continues to be despised.”
My family left the South immediately after The War, and have been living among the yankees for 150 years, and we still despise Sherman.
“My brother lives in Georgia and reports that Sherman continues to be despised”
You would be right. Revisionist history cannot even paint over this butcher and war criminal.
People wonder why there is still such animosity toward the North 150 years later but there is no mystery to it. First it has not been that long. My mother’s great uncle who she knew well as a child was in the Civil War. There are still a few children of Civil War Vets living. One or two Civil War widows still on govt pensions. So there are firsthand stories still available as to what actually transpired during the conflict.
The Southern states are still operating under Reconstruction election laws 150 years later that do not apply to the Northern states. What’s wrong with that picture?
The wounds of the Civil War have not healed and are not likely to as the war was only peripherally about slavery. It was mostly about states rights. Now we see the country beginning to tear apart again due to the same issue. Unless things change drastically and soon we will likely see the North and South separate again in our lifetime.
Our company flew her and I as well as several other employee's into Atlanta for a week long school. She was taken aback at the rude treatment she got several times when her last name was known. It was explained to her the significance of her name in the Georgia region. Some folks just don't forget no matter what.
From what I have read Vicksburg didn't start to celebrate July 4th till the 1940’s
Your brother hates Sherman for something that happened during the civil war? Is he 150 years old? Give me a break.