>>"War is the remedy our enemies have chosen. And I say let us give them all they want; not a word of argument, not a sign of let up, no cave-in until we are whipped - or they are." -- William Sherman<<
So this justifies killing innocent people? Old women and children were Sherman's enemy? Is the Holocaust justified, too?
The Holocaust was a systematic attempt to exterminate a whole race of people, and the southron insistance on using it as a comparison to Sherman's actions is insulting to both the Union soldiers and the Jewish victims of the Nazis. A better comparison would be with the allied air campaign in World War II. Innocent civilians were killed there, too. Far more systematically than anything Sherman contemplated. Private homes and businesses were targeted by allied bombers. If Sherman was a criminal then wouldn't Harris and Arnold be criminals, too?