To: samuel_adams_us
"Seems a few people were hung, homes were burned, seems a general sherman had a scorched earth policy. Seems he was with the north, not the south, seems he was ruthless. "
Don't forget the women raped by some of his men on their way through.
398 posted on
05/15/2003 4:24:18 PM PDT by
honeygrl
( If Wal-Mart is lowering prices every day, how come nothing in the store is free yet?)
To: honeygrl
Don't forget the women raped by some of his men on their way through. There were less than a dozen rapes by Sherman's 60,000 men on the march across GA and into the Carolinas. For an operation of this type they were very well behaved.
Walt
425 posted on
05/16/2003 6:30:21 AM PDT by
WhiskeyPapa
(Be copy now to men of grosser blood and teach them how to war!)
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