[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from April 15 (reply #13).

James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

[Vermont Lt]

One of the things this story brings to light is how “small” the country was at the time. In the military, the officers corps was small and pretty tight—everyone seemed to be connected with each other at some point. While they might not have been “friends”, they certainly all ran in the same circles.

These days, with a professional officer corps in the thousands such a war would be fought by strangers for the most part—except at the highest levels. I think that the knowledge of the man one was facing on the battlefield prevented the war from being even more savage than it was.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Thanks for the class and curriculum.

In the fwiw department, Gen. Sherman is STILL reviled in much of GA.

Just sayin

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