[icclearly]

“Real nice war criminal you got there. Pity he didnt eat a bullet.”

No — not “a bullet.” Lot’s of them. Notice he did not mention the families and the homes and crops that he burned to the ground on his march to Savannah who had nothing to do with slaves or making war.

Real nice guy, that Sherman. Lincoln was not any better!

[TheDandyMan]

War is hell and comes with a lot of collateral damage. Our ability to wage war with more precision today shouldn’t inform us to condemn warriors in the past.

We wouldn’t A-bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki today. But at the time it saved a lot of American lives. Bring the enemy to their knees by whatever means necessary is a method we’ve had the luxury to somewhat disregard in recent years.

[BroJoeK]

Sherman’s intention was to make Confederates howl, but his instructions to the Union Army were that places which did not resist were to be unharmed.

If you were shooting at Sherman’s troops, you could expect to be burned down.

After the war, typical of Democrats, Confederates exaggerated their own destruction & suffering.

[DoodleDawg]

No — not “a bullet.” Lot’s of them. Notice he did not mention the families and the homes and crops that he burned to the ground on his march to Savannah who had nothing to do with slaves or making war.

War is hell.