When you go on about the (add your own invective here) march of Sherman through the south, a close study of the history will show that much of the damage was due to the bummers (not under control of the military authorities), the retreating southern forces, the "army of contrabands" (also not under military control) that followed the Union armies, and common criminals who tagged along.
The point remains - what some of you throw around as "war crimes" were nothing of the sort.
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