[reagandemo]

I cannot blame the people for doing that given the circumstances. What should be noted is that after the war Sherman was one of the greatest friends of the South and was instrumental in giving pardons to Confederate soldiers mainly Robert E. Lee which he personally fought to have pardoned.

[wardaddy]

Sherman was forgiving....as was Grant more or less...and Lincoln too compared to the Jacobin Radical Republicans

but the behavior they allowed in the war was debatable regardless of their reasoning

were we to do that to our common foes today, the media and most politicians would howl and we would be scorned by history as pillagers

[old gringo]

you don't know what the hell you are talking about.sherman is called kerosene billy in the south.he burnt my grandfather's house and everything else standing,my grand father was a confederate soldier he lived to be 109 i knew him well.have you ever talked to a confederate soldier?

[af_vet_rr]

What should be noted is that after the war Sherman was one of the greatest friends of the South and was instrumental in giving pardons to Confederate soldiers mainly Robert E. Lee which he personally fought to have pardoned.

You have to remember two things - as you noted, Sherman was a friend of the South (and even helped found/run LSU before the War), and after the war was over, he was welcomed in the south - I believe the Mayor of Atlanta welcomed him 10 or 15 years later.

Also, Sherman's march wasn't as bad as it's been made out to believe. I've ran into people that would have you think he burned Georgia down, when that's far from what happened.

Furthermore, the hatred of Sherman has really only cropped up in the past two decades or so (back to the 80s). Easy to see this when you look at the literature produced before the 1970s/1980s, and after.

[capitalist229]

I don't sit kindly with Sherman apologists any more than I would those supporting radical Islam...

YMMV

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