Well sure, if you empty the New York prisons of every rapist and murderer you can find, collect them all together, and set them loose on a civilian population you can indeed “make them howl”.
The man built an army of criminals and set them loose on women and children. The only one worse than Sherman was Sherman’s wife. She literally called for genocide of all southern people in her letters to him.
“Well sure, if you empty the New York prisons of every rapist and murderer you can find, collect them all together, and set them loose on a civilian population you can indeed “make them howl”.”
Not quite. Of the 117 infantry regiments making up the six Corps of Sherman’s Army 14 regiments were from New York. And a few from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts. 80% of the Sherman’s army was composed of infantry regiments from West of the Appalachian Mountains