Posted on 05/02/2017 5:06:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
If political correctness has taught us nothing it has shown that it is impossible to ascribe current cultural norms and acceptance to historical facts.
And yet they keep trying.
Because norms are more important to the agenda than facts
to them. Control the narrative, control the past, control
the present is the name of their game.
The case for reparations is clear.
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As the man stated: “War is Hell.”
If so then war itself is a crime, and everyone involved a criminal.
Did Sherman fit the definition of a war criminal? Yes. Is he a war criminal? No. Only the losers can be war criminals.
No
Uh ... no.
First I've heard of it anyway.
No.
Sherman was both a war criminal and a war hero—and neither a war criminal nor a war hero.
In one sense—dispassionate theoretical evaluation—Sherman doubtless committed acts that—to the modern sensibility as well as that of his contemporaries—would be considered "war crimes".
In another sense—practicing the art of warfare—Sherman was simply a high-ranking soldier following the orders of his commander in chief—orders that specifically requested the "scorched earth" tactics that he employed.
Like any prominent historical figure—especially an American—Sherman is hard to pigeonhole, IMHO...
Yes.
Compared to ‘Spoons’ Butler (sometimes called ‘Beast’ Butler), Sherman was an angel. He didn’t steal for personal enrichment and he didn’t authorize his troops to rape the women.
I googled that and got this:
This title is pretty misleading and implies that Sherman was marching them around to clear the mines by stepping on them...
But if you actually read the link, you'd see that after the Union took the fort. He basically was like, "you guys planted them, now you guys gotta dig em up".
If so, it wasn't any war crime.
Very interesting. Thanks for the book information...
Sherman was still a professional military man after the war, and was Commanding General of the Army from 1869 to 1883. He wouldn’t have been able to officially advise a foreign head of state of anything under those circumstances.
Was President Harry S. Truman?
War has no rules, that’s why it is called ‘war’.
in the early 1980’s we were touring an antebellum plantation in Louisiana. An older lady, most likely a local was the guide. During the conversation I brought up General Sherman. This woman responded angrily that she would be grateful if I would not bring up his name again in her presence. I reacted by asking what could be the problem with that as the Civil War was (at that time) was over 120 years ago. She sniffed “you sir have no idea what that man did to my family”.
it was unreal.
Read “The Siege Of Atlanta, 1864” by Samuel Carter III.
Lots of info on how General Sherman acted.
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