isn't it interesting how the Yankee's write their own versions of history ?
"isn't it interesting how the Yankee's write their own versions of history ?"
I hate that.
Why not? You Rebs do it all the time.
It is indeed a truism that the victors write the history...and the losers write the myths.
Just like the Rebs.
Sherman was one of America's greatest Generals, a man of Honor just as much as Lee. Because of his "pillage"; hundreds of thousands of lives were spared.
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(quote)isn't it interesting how the Yankee's write their own versions of history ? AMEN injin
where do they learn all thier history off of T V or the movies?
Sherman would be tried for war crimes in today's world. The majority of plantations were already in ruins, with only the women and children and ex-slaves subsisting on the land. (Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation having freed only the slaves in the Confederate States, while Mrs. Grant kept her household slaves until well after the war.) "Gone with the Wind" was not fictional in depicting the circumstances in the South. And by the way, Southerners have not forgotten and will never forget. The scars from the cruelty of the dishonorable US government are embedded in the soul of the South.