> Just know that the Nazis learned many lessons from Mr. Sherman
As did Curtis LeMay.
Although... I suppose you are right. Perhaps a better approach for Sherman would have not been to burn the south to the ground, but to leave it in place... and shackle and enslave those who owned slaves and/or were officers in the military force that fought to maintain the slave status of the blacks. Wouldn't that be nice? All them nice young "southern flowers" stripped, shackled, beaten and forced to work in the fields for the rest of their lives?
That's honorable, doncha know.
Why don't you go crawl back under the rock from whence you slithered. I, like the previous poster, invite you to go up to a good ol' Southern Boy and start insulting him about the South. He'll promptly teach you some much needed manners.
So now you're saying that people who were affluent in antebellum should have been forced into slavery post-war. Now, besides saying that my ancestors should have been put in shackles post-war, you're espousing a belief that Fidel Castron would be proud of. So it makes sense that the Radical Reconstruction governments acted in a Communistic fashion.
"All them nice young "southern flowers" stripped, shackled, beaten and forced to work in the fields for the rest of their lives?
That's honorable, doncha know."
Except they were, to a man, pardoned and restored to citizenship. They died every bit as American as you will ever be.....what is so hard to understand about that.
Sherman shouldn't have led a pillaging mob through the South. That wasn't necessary to win. Lee never would have done that - hence Lee is remembered as a far greater American than Sherman. It's infuriating, I know......