Posted on 12/05/2014 1:01:20 PM PST by aomagrat
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS-TV) -
At this time in December 150 years ago, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and his army were advancing on Savannah, leaving a wake of destruction behind. But the true wrath of Sherman's army was being reserved for South Carolina.
"He wanted to cripple the Confederacy," said retired University of South Carolina journalism professor Patricia McNeely. Since the campus survived the burning of Columbia, the Horseshoe was an appropriate place for our interview.
"He wanted them to give up fighting. He wanted them to lose faith in their leadership in the Confederacy. But most people have overlooked this. Because, when, when Columbia was burned, he blamed it on General Wade Hampton and the Confederates leaving cotton burning in the streets."
McNeely's book, Sherman's Flame and Blame Campaign explains a strategy that she says previous historians overlooked.
"This is a flame and blame campaign that I have found," McNeely said. "Sherman was providing all this disinformation early and during the Civil War and did not admit until 1875 in his memoirs that he had blamed the Confederates, namely General Hampton. For these reasons, everybody believed what he had said, the disinformation that he had spread, the propaganda that he'd deliberately used so nobody actually went through and saw the pattern of the burning and blaming."
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“The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.’’ United States Constitution, Article 1 Section 9. Learn the Constitution before making yourself look like a fool.
Even if true they still lost.
"War is the remedy our enemy's have chosen. They dared us to war, and you remember how tauntingly they defied us to the contest. We have accepted the issue and it must be fought out. You might as well reason with a thunderstorm. I say let us give them all they want; not a word of argument, not a sign of let up, no cave in till we are whipped or they are."
Mr. Lincoln’s War was unnecessary. The USA was never under any threat. The CSA and USA could have negotiated a peace in 1861 but the top hatted butcher would have none of that silly peace talk.
What you say is true, but the US Army could only do ONE "march" at a time as it is miniscule compared to the US population. So while the Army was in say GA there would be 20 other states massing against them. Think about that.
How could the federal government tell state governments how they should use their land for anything, much less defense? Which was a federal responsibility anyway.? The federal government could not and did not own state land.
No, they owned federal land. In the case of Fort Sumter it was land that was deeded to the federal government by act of the South Carolina legislature.
The blockades at Pensacola and Charleston predated 4:15 a.m. April 12, 1861.
If I remember correctly the Sumter relief force met a ship leaving Charleston (the Nashville?) and it was allowed to proceed. Some time prior to that the Confederate batteries fired on the Rhoda Shannon as she entered the port. No doubt there was other traffic in and out other than those two. So how could Charleston be blockaded if ships were coming and going?
The best preserved and haunted battlefield.
So members of the U.S. 8th Air Force, the RAF Bomber Command, and the U.S. XXI Bomber Command in the Pacific were all war criminals?
Antietam apparently had a luminary last night - so a friend told me. Candles for everyone who died there. Would that be possible?!
Hell, Abe jailed the MD legislature in 1861....
Hey, what's up? You still at it?
Chew on this link:
That would mean almost 23,000 candles. That's a lot.
A man who cannot distinguish, even in principle, between justly lethal acts and murder, ought to be kept on a chain.
My Maine son knows this very well.
Thank you, sir! I salute you too!
You may have missed that part where the SUPREME COURT gets to have the final say. You know that CO-EQUAL branch of government.
The Supreme Court said Lincoln couldn’t do it.
Lincoln ignored their ruling, that is a violation of the constitution.
Very beautiful photo. I find it sad-just infinitely sad. For so many men to die is such short a time makes me shudder. I just bought a book at Gettysburg about the “clean up” process after the battle. Pretty horrifying.
“And these numbnuts arguing are as oblivious to what 1861-77 was all about as they are to the disintegration going on around them now”
Yes and they will finally get to see a real Civil War as CWII really will be two factions fighting for control of the government.
More Lost Cause mythology.
You gotta compliment from wardaddy! That’s about the highest compliment you can get on FR!
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