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John Bennett Walters: "An invading army, without any claim on military necessity, had thrown away every inclination toward mercy for weakness and helplessness. The Federal troops had resorted to the sheer brutality of overpowering strength to despoil a people of their material resources and to injure irreparably their finer sensibilities."
Need it spelled out ?
ROTFLMAO!!!! No, no, in the Lost Cause world any unsubstantiated claim will do. In fact the more outrageous the claim and the less evidence there it to support it then the more firmly you cling to it.
But let me point out that your original claim was about Sherman slaughtering civilians. You backing away from that?