[Non-Sequitur]

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.

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.

[NJ Neocon]

Indeed. More Neoconfederate myth.

No other general gained so many strategic victories with so little loss of life. Nor did any other general's actions do more to hasten the end of the war.

[NJ Neocon]

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.

Amen brother. keep up the good fight. Truth will always win out against propaganda.

It is only the most un-reconstructed Neoconfederate that spouts this drivel. I have been immersed in the Civil War world for over a decade. The vast majority of honest members of this community with Southern sympathies acknowledge the truth. As I type here on my official us-civilwar.com mouse pad from the 2001 muster at Chickamauga I recall my fellow members of vast knowledge and southern leanings who admitted this.

[PeaRidge]

"More and more the truth is coming out, and the southron myths are being unmasked."

Actually, the truth has been out there for 140 years. Beginning in the 1870's, and reaching a pinnacle in the 1950's, northern-centric writers and historians have attempted to conceal and misdirect the facts. But the facts can still be found.

[PeaRidge]

"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."

Could you source that quote?

[Wampus SC]

"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."

There sure were a lot of pictures of the damage alleged to have been done by Sherman's troops. Who faked those pictures? And how? And when?