Unusual capacity.......yes.
You have already received this, however, you did not learn.
Sherman was a mass murderer, his troops raped and slaughtered their way across Georgia & South Carolina - meeting token resistance from feeble old men, women and children.
Their homes and crops were destroyed, they were robbed of their personal property including jewelry, silverware and monies. Women and children were captured and sent into Northern slavery.
Sherman though the country was swarming with Jews, and even issued an order expelling them. Regarding Southerners, he wrote his wife of "extermination, not of soldiers alone". To which his dutiful wife responded that she wished for a war of extermination and that all Confederates would be driven like "swine into the sea".
After the war Sherman waged war on the Native Americans, "even to their extermination, men, women and children." He gave orders that "soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age."
Some hero.
42 posted on 01/20/2004 10:43:39 AM EST by 4ConservativeJustices
But Grant and Freeman spoke well of him.
So the southron myth machine would have us believe. The publishers of "Civil War Times" and "Military History" did a special edition last month focusing on 1864. One of the articles was on Sherman's campaign in Georgia and the article noted, "Circumstances point to the conclusion that actual plundering of nonedible property was minimal during the march to the sea, and possibly less than what confederates destroyed in Pennsylvania." Property of no value to the southern war effort was generally left alone, houses were for the most part respected, and civilians were not harmed. More and more the truth is coming out, and the southron myths are being unmasked.
That is simply not true.
Sherman was the best thing that ever happened to the south. He did more damage to the Southern war effort wit LESS death than would have been possible otherwise. He was the atomic bomb of the war that ended it far sooner and with less loss of life than would have occurred otherwise.
The reality is that the deaths he caused on his march were a pittance next to the bloodletting elsewhere. That was his point. The official records bear this out. isolated incidents to the contrary do not change this. There were very few civilian or military casualties on his march. This is fact. Anecdotal evidence of victims who, understandably, wove great lamentations to his coming do not change the statistical data.
Regarding the Indians, one of the greatest American presidents, and a southern democrat, Jackson, was far worse to Indians.
In addition to the other refutations of your damnable lies and distortions about General Sherman, I would add that the "token resistance" Sherman encountered on his way through Georgia included the bloody Battle of Atlanta, which but for poor generalship on the Southern side might have been a Confederate victory.