“In reality, 0 people died of starvation as a result of Sherman’s March.”
Yes, and Walt Disney gives an accurate portrayal of the Civil War too.
See my main point above.
And the claims of large amounts of civilian deaths only make sense if one makes the argument that deaths from diseases unintentionally spread by armies on the march qualify.
The underlying blog post is not based on hard sources and uses the Napoleonic Wars as a way of calculating Civil War civilian deaths - a highly flawed assumption.
There really is just one good example of starvation as a result of direct military action in the US Civil War: the siege of Vicksburg - and there the number was probably closer to 200-300, not thousands.
What is happening in Syria is different: it is the deliberate execution of noncombatants by government troops and by terrorists.
This is happening on a scale far larger than those conducted by mass killers of civilians like William Quantrill in the Civil War - who was accused of killing several hundred people during his raids.