The ironic part of your statement is that "Uncle Billy" saved tens of thousands of Southerners from certain death. His march through Georgia and the Carolina's was a brilliant military action which cost very few lives on either side yet shortened the war by at least one full year.
How many more would have died in service to an already defeated cause were it not for Sherman?
How many more would have died in service to an already defeated cause were it not for Sherman?”
Sherman was a terrorist and a monster. Your attempt at Yankee revisionist history will not change that. The North won. the South lost. The war is over, for now.
Sherman did for the Civil War what the atomic bomb did for World War II.
W.T. Sherman is rightfully despised by the south for his tactics of murder rape, and pillage. There are many highly documented cases of where he winkingly cast a blind eye to the atrocities committed by his army during the March through Georgia. I am just waiting for the first northern sympathizer to state how much honorable a man he was than Lee, Jackson, Longstreet, others.
One wonders how much different this war would have been if Lee would have taken that approach through Pa. early in 1863. An unpopular war (read the NYT last half of 1862) may have been even less supported.