>>Hieronymus wrote: “Jeff Shaara’s four volume series on the Civil War caused me to have some grudging admiration for Sherman—something I would have thought impossible.”
My regret is that Sherman and the rest of Lincoln’s thugs didn’t hang for war crimes.
Mr. Kalamata
The series seems very balanced. Patrick Cleburne is portrayed much more favourably than Sherman, but Sherman actually had some good points
Generally, all politicians should be hanged.
> My regret is that Sherman and the rest of Lincoln’s thugs didn’t hang for war crimes. <
Only the defeated get hanged for war crimes, of course. And here one must give the North - and Andrew Johnson in particular - some credit. From the North’s point of view, the entire Confederate leadership had committed the capital crime of treason. Yet not a single one of them was executed.
If I’m not mistaken, the only Confederate executed for war crimes was Henry Wirz, the commandant of Andersonville prison.
You can take consolation in the fact that some of the Confederate war criminals did hang.