One of the greatest war crimes in history.
“The night they burned old Dixie down...” Atlanta was set alight and the entire city burned to the ground.
Another quote from Major General Sherman “War is the solution our enemies have chosen, and I say give them all they want.”
War is hell.
Hardly. Sherman crippled the Confederacy’s will — and ability — to wage war. Which is precisely what he set out to do.
By the time he reached the coast, and even before, when Atlanta fell, the Confederates should have recognized that their cause was lost, and that all they could do was forestall the inevitable.
The March through Georgia, if considered a war crime, which itself is a debatable proposition, doesn’t even make the top 25. Consider the following wars/campaigns:
Irish Confederate Wars (1641-1653)
The Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814)
The Taiping Rebellion (1850-64)
Mexican Revolution (1911-20)
The Turkish war against the Armenians
The Russian Civil War and Revolution
Spanish Civil War
The German invasions of Poland, Russia, France
The Chinese Civil War (1927-37 then 1945-49)
Sino-Japanese War (1937-45)
The Japanese invasions of the Philippines, Malaya, Burma
Each of these wars and/or operations contained multiple war crimes that greatly exceed the size and scope of civilian death and destructiveness that Sherman inflicted upon Georgia.
Burning Atlanta to the ground on his way out. Now he’s burning in Hell for eternity. :-)
Simply no