To: putupon
No, they went "above and beyond" by doing some pillaging of private homes, etc.
80 posted on
04/19/2003 7:34:30 AM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
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To: Grand Old Partisan
No, they went "above and beyond" by doing some pillaging of private homes, etc.Sherman's order was to destroy only public property in his take the "war to the people" 20 mile wide swath of total destruction on the March to the Sea?
The only private property destroyed by Sherman's troops was that done by the 1st Alabama US Cavalry?
How did Sherman plan to "take the war to the people" if he wasn't planning to destroy private property?
95 posted on
04/19/2003 8:24:16 AM PDT by
putupon
(I smack Chirac and Robbins too w/ my shoe.)
To: Grand Old Partisan
the WHOLE army under sherman committed WAR CRIMES; most of the worst war crimes were against NON-whites & the poorest of southerners, as NOBODY cared what happened to slaves, indians & the poorest of the poor whites.
free dixie,sw
112 posted on
04/19/2003 9:52:18 AM PDT by
stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. : Thomas Jefferson 1774)
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