This one is also good:
One of the greatest war crimes in history.
With California wanting to secede, I eagerly await “Marching through California.”
General Sherman was a serious man.
This one is also good:
I believe it was Sherman who was talking to his friend, a Confederate general, before the war, telling them not to start it, because a farming nation cannot defeat an industrial nation.
Many of Sherman’s most merciless soldiers on the march to the sea were Southerners from the Upper South. They did not want secession and war, but the Lower South and unscrupulous pro-slavery politicians had forced it upon them. I guess for many, the march was their way to get even. But Georgia was nothing like the payback they administered to South Carolina.
Sherman was a war criminal.
lousy sob
If you look at a modern map of Georgia, you can see where Sherman went.
They swath of destruction is still visible. The towns on either side of the path are larger and the road net is more established.
In the path, the towns are few and far between, they are underpopulated and the road net is only now getting more populated as the folks in the cities (Savannah, Augusta, Statesboro, Milledgeville) are moving out into the countryside.
This last weekend, I was in a town just south of Statesboro. Beautiful farmland, but, there are still signs of Sherman’s path in the area.