[RightWinger]

You have to remember that Sherman was a despicable human being. During the Indian Wars he ordered the massacre of entire villages of women & children. One should never praise a scumbag like him.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Ceasar had Vercingetorix excuted.

Was caesar a scumbag?

One of the less adroit techniques of the neo-rebs is to present historical people in modern day light, and hope that people today will be ignorant enough to condemn them.

Walt

[stainlessbanner]

In addition to the Indian atrocities, he took pride in the wholesale destruction of Meridian as well.

[LS]

Sherman was a warrior, period. A great one. Like Napoleon, he didn't do much else well. In that sense, he was much unlike Patton, who was an intellectual.

The problem is, when a cause needs a warrior, you want EXACTLY the kind of "scumbags" like Sherman to be leading your troops, because it is their lives that will be saved in the end. He was phenomenally frugal with the lives of his men, unlike Jackson, Lee, or especially Grant and Burnside. For that he deserves praise.