[carenot]

Sherman figured out that if he couldn't kill every confederate soldier, he could kill the South's will to fight and keep his men alive at the same time.

Yes, he killed their will to fight. All he had to do was kill their wife and kids. Maybe their old Mama and Daddy too.
Easy when ya think about it.

[fooman]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1174259/posts


This would have done Sherman proud. Thread, my only real beef with the war outcome is with Sherman.

[fooman]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/jarvis/jarvis19.html Compare.... Simms makes only a passing mention of "outrages" against women, black and white, that took place "in remote country settlements" far from the eyes of Union officers. He recounts "two cases" of young black women that tragically ended in death but this is not a subject he wants to pursue so he demurs: "Horrid narratives of rape are given which we dare not attempt to individualize." The fires as well as the vandalism continued unabated for almost 12 hours. Around four in the morning, a distraught lady confronted a Union officer: "In the name of God, sir, when is this work of hell to be ended?" "You will hear the bugles at sunrise" he replied, " when a guard will enter the town and withdraw these troops. It will then cease, and not before." " Sure enough, with the bugle’s sound, and the entrance of fresh bodies of troops, there was an instantaneous arrest of incendiarism. You could see the rioters carried off in groups and squads, from the several precincts they had ravaged."

[zarf]

I guess you thought the US Air Corps were murderers for bombing civilians in Japan.

War is hell and you're outrage is very selective.

The Confederacy is dead. Get over it.