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To: Upstate NY Guy

Sherman's men cut their Union supply lines and they still found more than enough to eat in their march through Georgia. In fact they burned and destoyed far more than they consumed. So there was plenty of food in Georgia prior to the march. And yet 45000 men died in the Andersonville, GA prison, mostly because of starvation. I suspect some real Yankee hatred was going on as well.

If any current US Army commander in Iraq or Afghan tried to do what the "Torch" did in GA & SC circa 1864/65 he would be tried for war crimes.

9 posted on 05/30/2011 7:38:19 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)

If any current US Army commander in Iraq or Afghan tried to do what the "Torch" did in GA & SC circa 1864/65 he would be tried for war crimes.

Probably true. But at the same time Sherman began what is now known as "modern war" and what he called "total war". Military historian B. H. Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general".

12 posted on 05/30/2011 7:56:23 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy

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