Suck it up pal. You lost.
Posted on 07/18/2004 8:40:59 PM PDT by canalabamian
DIXIE PING
hmmm very interesting take on Sherman
Did the author attempt to contact General Sherman for comment?
As long as Sherman was killin Southerners he was OK by me.
As long as the US keeps killin Islamofascists, it's OK by me too.
Make em howl.
War is Hell.
a$$wipe
well nice knowing you zarf *LOL*
Sherman: lowlife.
Southerners hate Sherman for fighting ungentlemanly. The man was strategically brilliant, however. They will attack Sherman for as long as the Civil War is in vogue.
As to Shiloh, it was the first serious engagement of the war and a lot of Union generals were still getting their feet wet. Sherman and Grant were surprised--but ultimately the attack was repulsed.
In Chatanooga, Sherman followed Grant's orders to flank the ridge and it turned out the terrain was very difficult to travel and very easily defensible. The unordered charge by Thomas army did save the day.
Finally, at Chickasaw Bluffs, it's not clear that any army could have taken that position.
I'm not gonna argue about the civilian casualties stuff. I think it was every bit as defensible as the mass bombing of Japan and Germany in WWII.
Are cutesy blurbs like this at the end of articles still in style? They make me cringe.
Well....the South still has hard feelings about Gen. Sherman it would seem. However I fail to see the connection between Sherman and Iraq....there is none...excpet for few morons...we've acted with considerable restraint....considering what we CAN do if we were of a mind to.
As long as the US keeps killin Islamofascists, it's OK by me too.
And as long as you compare Southerners with ignorant, insane, hate-filled Islamic radicals, then you're quite ignorant...and an a**hole to boot.
Suck it up pal. You lost.
My memory may have failed me, but I have no recollection of Sherman putting panties on a prisoner's head or making one jerk off. What he did was orders of magnitude more cruel and more serious.
Certainly not on FR. I think the universal consensus here is that the man was a saint.
[Sound of rapidly retreating footsteps as BtD heads for his bunker...]
We need a 21st century Sherman to make 'em howl!
This is a ridiculous article. The strained attempt to draw a link between Sherman and Abu Ghraib is laughable. The whole thing is sophomoric. It (and it's cutesy author tagline) reads like something that would appear on a high school newspaper's editorial page.
Niether Lincoln nor Grant were really up to letting Sherman put his plan into effect. But Sherman knew well that splitting the south in two was the only way to speed the end of that useless and idiotic war.
At wars end during the few days after Lincoln was killed, it was Grant, Lee, Sherman, and a couple other southern leaders that saved the republic from falling even more into an ongoing war. Grant gave the most generous of terms-basically it was "lay down your arms, go home and dont never do that ever again." Sherman dictated the same to those who gave up to him. At that time there were many who wanted to go throughout the south and lay complete and utter waste to the whole area. These men prevented that. Yet I never hear diddly about those fearfull days when the south could have been raped like the Japanese did to Nanking during WW2.
Some people will be forever caught in the civil war. A war that wasted thousands of good men for no good.
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