Gen. Sherman was a great man. The South wanted to expand slavery into the new territories and keep it forever. They also wanted to break away any time they didn’t like the results of an election, which would have turned the USA into a bunch of squabbling little nations.
Those who promoted slavery may be burning in hell. Sherman may or may not be. But the South joined hands with the devil and needed to be beaten.
Sherman was not a great man, he was a war criminal.
Slavery was a crime, yes. But Sherman was an evil beast. So an industrialized set of states attacked an agrarian society and won. But don’t go burning and slashing like Attila the Hun.
“Those who promoted slavery may be burning in hell.”
This sounds like Kapernick-style wish-casting about the eternal destiny of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and over half of the signers of the Declaration of Independence?
Remember, of the original 13 states, 13 of them were slave states. And 13 of them voted to enshrine slavery into the constitution of the United States.
Wow that sounds so ... contemporary.
So 620,000 men needed to die?
So says you.