Posted on 01/17/2016 1:26:17 PM PST by soakncider
That is why, within just a few months of the Proclamation, a number of commanders in the field...felt sanctioned to unleash the equivalent of what in the 20th century came to be called "total war"-a war upon civilians and their property in the South, with attendant looting, murder, arson, and rape, and neither women, children, the old and infirm, or oftentimes even blacks, were spared. As General-in-Chief Halleck noted in a letter to Ulysses Grant on March 31, 1863: The character of the war has very much changed..There is now no possible hope of reconciliation with the rebels..There can be no peace but that which is forced by the sword. We must conquer the rebels. A few days later Grant concurred: Rebellion has assumed that shape now that it can only terminate by the complete subjugation of the South..It is our duty to weaken the enemy, by destroying their means of subsistence, withdrawing their means of cultivating their fields, and in every other way possible. Thus it was that in his campaign in the West against Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the Spring and Summer of 1863, Grant had no compunction in attacking civilians and destroying feed mills: "Civilians were suffering from unceasing bombardment and the shortage of food"..In the aftermath, Grant ordered General William Sherman east to Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, which he conquered on July 17 after five days of incessant bombardment without Confederate resistance and proceeded to unleash the troops on a three-day rampage that, according to a Northern reporter, "left the entire business section in ruins, burned most of the better residences..and looted homes, churches, and the state library,"..."such complete ruin and devastation never followed the footsteps of any army before." Sherman boasted to Grant, "The land is devastated for 30 miles around."
(Excerpt) Read more at abbevilleinstitute.org ...
Don’t forget Giap wouldn’t have won the war except he had
Kerry, Fonda, the Democrat party, as underlings.
We were winning when I left.
Okay, can Dearborn secede creating the first Islamic state in the Americas? Can I secede since I don't like Obama or the "friends across the aisle" Republicans?
Kicked the South's ass while drunk, huh. Even more impressive.
"having the power", the key phrase. The South ended up not having the power.
Another arrogant neo-confederate, thinking she has the judgment power of God.
Like i stated previously, if you cannot acknowledge a state’s right to secede for any reason, then you have no rights beyond those granted by the government. Rights are not rights if they can be abolished by the government at the point of a gun. I understand that the Confederacy had not the moral high ground in slavery, but the right to secede did exist. If you could envision any reason for which you would separate yourself from a tyrannical government, and i can think of a few, secession might be your only lawful path. I am speaking in contemporary terms.
How do you explain chaining union soldiers to burning logs? Nathan Bedford Forrest was a scumbag, founder of the KKK and guilty of crimes against humanity.
So if the larger power says you don’t have rights, then you don’t have rights?
The South's right to secession, which they didn't have in the first place since they didn't run it through the Congress, ended with the attack on Fort Sumter.
“How do you explain chaining union soldiers to burning logs? Nathan Bedford Forrest was a scumbag, founder of the KKK and guilty of crimes against humanity.”
Can you please cite your source?
All of the states fought for the land in various wars. You just can't bypass Congress and steal half the country because you love slavocracy. They found out the hard way.
When Fort Sumter was attacked, SC had seceded, but many other states didn’t secede until after Lincoln called for 75000 troops to put down the rebellion.
Common knowledge history. Do a search.
Just don’t bother with abbevilleinstitute LOL
Another arrogant neo-confederate, thinking she has the judgment power of God.
She is just expressing her opinion of sherman's atrocities. There is arrogance enough to go around.
What's that got to do with the price of beans in Boston? Fort Sumter was federal property, built from the seafloor by the states through the federal government, and in an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, not state property.
...but many other states didn’t secede until after Lincoln called for 75000 troops to put down the rebellion.
It was obvious the South wanted war from the start.
lol!
Assuming the judgment power of God is a no-no.
I did, but i didn’t turn up anything.
“assuming the judgment power of God is no-no”
Well if an army burns your crops, kills your cattle, rapes your women, and destroys your cities, it is safe to assume...
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