[Ohioan]

What are you writing about? Patton treated the German population with respect. That was why he was removed from Command of the occupation, by those who wanted to punish Germany for the War.

I do not want to attack my fellow Ohioan, Sherman. But his method of waging war was far less chivalric than Patton's.

That said, I am really posting on this thread, not because I want to get into the debate over Longstreet; but to point out that Longstreet's Uncle, who was one of the leading educators in the Old South--President, I believe of four of her leading Universities--wrote a book Georgia Scenes, which Edgar Allan Poe highly recommended. One of the stories, The Debating Society, will prove a rewarding little interlude for anyone who enjoys dry traditional American humor. A good way to "lighten up," with a bit of traditional Americana.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[LS]

William, Patton treated the Germans with respect AFTER the war; while he was marching, he didn't hesitate to level anything in his path. Of course, there is an important difference here, and that is that Patton did not have to deal with the new "personhood" of hundreds of thousands of people who the indigineous population wanted to either kill or re-enslave, and who, quite often, wanted to do the same to the Rebels. That made it more difficult to treat the defeated Southerners "with respect."

Imagine Patton's situation, for example, if he inherited large numbers of Jews and at the same time still had thousands of armed, hostile Germans, each willing to kill the other.