You're comparing apples and oranges, and we gave the people of Hiroshima warning that we were going to hit. I take it no one evacuated, but they had that knowledge. Atlanta on the other hand, Sherman chose to sneak up on it so people wouldn't know until it was too late so they couldn't adequately take what they had with them. Also, the U.S Army didn't enter the ruins of Hiroshima with the intent to take away food from victims of the bombing, as opposed to Atlanta.
Bull.
Atlanta on the other hand, Sherman chose to sneak up on it so people wouldn't know until it was too late so they couldn't adequately take what they had with them.
Are you delusional? Sherman's campaign against Atlanta lasted for six weeks before the city fell. Hood was able to evacuate his forces from the city on Sept. 1. Civilians could have left anytime before then. Two days after occupying the city, Sherman ordered all civilians to leave, allowing them to take whatever they could move with them. From his communication to Gen. Hood:
GENERAL: I have deemed it to the interest of the United States that the citizens now residing in Atlanta should remove, those who prefer it to go south, and the rest north. For the latter I can provide food and transportation to points of their election in Tennessee, Kentucky, or farther north. For the former I can provide transportation by cars as far as Rough and Ready, and also wagons; but, that their removal may be made with as little discomfort as possible, it will be necessary for you to help the families from Rough and Ready to the care at Lovejoy's. If you consent, I will undertake to remove all the families in Atlanta who prefer to go south to Rough and Ready, with all their movable effects, viz., clothing, trunks, reasonable furniture, bedding, etc., with their servants, white and black, with the proviso that no force shall be used toward the blacks, one way or the other
After that, Sherman occupied the city for two months before burning it down on November 11.
In the name of common sense I ask you not to appeal to a just God in such a sacrilegious manner; you who, in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into war, dark and cruel war; who dared and badgered us to battle, insulted our flag, seized our arsenals and forts that were left in the honorable custody of peaceful ordnance sergeants; seized and made "prisoners of war" the very garrisons sent to protect your people against negroes and Indians long before any overt act was committed by the, to you, hated Lincoln Government; tried to force Kentucky and Missouri into rebellion, spite of themselves; falsified the vote of Louisiana, turned loose your privateers to plunder unarmed ships; expelled Union families by the thousands; burned their houses and declared by an act of your Congress the confiscation of all debts due Northern men for goods had and received. Talk thus to the marines, but not to me, who have seen these things, and who will this day make as much sacrifice for the peace and honor of the South as the best born Southerner among you. If we must be enemies, let us be men and fight it out, as we propose to do, and not deal in such hypocritical appeals to God and humanity. God will judge us in due time, and He will pronounce whether it be more humane to fight with a town full of women, and the families of "a brave people" at our back, or to remove them in time to places of safety among their own friends and people.