[takbodan]

Yea and Sherman's strategy was pure genius. He lost very few troops.

[ambrose]

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The Battle Hymn of the Republic

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Julia Ward Howe

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d rows of steel,
"As ye deal with my contemners, So with you my grace shall deal;"
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel
Since God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

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[Texas Federalist]

Yea and Sherman's strategy was pure genius. He lost very few troops.

But can burn in hell for eternity.

[free_european]

If I remember my military history correctly that had little to do with his scorched earth strategy and more to do with his tactic of outflanking Confederate units rather than assaulting them frontally. Where he deviated from this (Kennesaw Mountain) he lost 3% of his total army as casualties.

[Irish Rose]

Sherman's strategy ended the war sooner, I think, but I don't know whether or not he went overboard. A case could be made either way. But my point - entirely apart from the morality, or not, of Sherman's strategy - was that the South was ruined for years. That could easily trigger Southern anger toward Abraham Lincoln, who ordered (or at least tolerated) the destruction of their homes, farms, and cities.