[donmeaker]

The southern deserters would have been better off stopping Hood’s and Wheeler’s torches. Hood burned more of Atlanta than Sherman, if only because he got first chance to burn the city.

Southern deserters burned many homes and farms that Sherman never reached. Pretended confederate defenders slashed the fire hoses in Richmond and other southern cities to prevent fires they set from being extinguished. That way the US Army forces would be busy putting out the fire, and the pretended confederates would free to get away.

[central_va]

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