>>Hieronymus wrote: “The series seems very balanced. Patrick Cleburne is portrayed much more favourably than Sherman, but Sherman actually had some good points.”
I have been searching for almost 20 years, and have not found a single good point that can be attributed to Sherman. What good points do you attribute to him?
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>>Hieronymus wrote: “Generally, all politicians should be hanged.”
No. Only the war criminals, like Lincoln and Obama.
Mr. Kalamata
I don’t think that he was as bad against civilians as I thought he was—a commander has only so much control over his troops—and with that in mindful I think he was a good general in the sense that he just wanted to get the war over with as quickly and painlessly as possible.
My heart is still with the South, but that does not mean that I cannot respect that Sherman was an effective general who did the job assigned to him, and respect that he was a very torn and tortured human being.
I used to not be able to give him that much credit.