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I’ve been reading a lot of Texas history. Civil War/Reconstruction/Readmission (?) created real Constitutional problems....not easily dealt with.
Not trying to take any sides, or pick any fights, as I know lots of folks here feel strongly about this topic and many others.
I’m just saying.....that era of history was fraught with real difficulties socially, legally, constitutionally, etc. Even good people with rational moral impulses could strongly disagree. And have good reasons for their disagreements. Nothing easy bout that time period.....
bfl
I think Sherman liked Southerns just fine...it was Confederates that he disliked.
As a recovering Yankee now gratefully assimilated to Tennessee, I say Sherman, Sheridan and Grant may take their places in the Lower Kingdom, if God so judge.
Thank you for posting this.
Up until now, I had a tiny bit of respect for WT Sherman.
This letter opened my eyes to the fact that he is no different than a George Soros or any other liberal trash that advocates for ‘good little obedient citizens’ over those who are native born and have real grievances that are being ignored.
This gem sealed it:
“No man would deny that the United States would be benefited by dispossessing a single prejudiced, hard-headed and disloyal planter and substitute in his place a dozen or more patient, industrious, good families, even if they be of foreign birth.”
Sherman would be a wonderful modern version of Michael Bloomberg with a Che Guevara touch of slaughter.
“The Government of the United States has in North-Alabama any and all rights which they choose to enforce in war — to take their lives, their homes, their lands, their everything . . . and war is simply power unrestrained by constitution or compact. If they want eternal warfare, well and good; we will accept the issue and dispossess them, and put our friends in possession. Many, many people, with less pertinacity than the South, have been wiped out of national existence.”
Unreal!
War is hell.
They keep blacks on the hook of government handouts for their votes instead of bales of cotton for the mills of England. Demand the import of cultures alien to our country's founding principles and voting rights for non-citizens. Propagate insane ideas contrary to basic human biology and millennia of universally accepted behavior. And to help accomplish their goals have destroyed an education system that was once the envy of the world.
Sherman lived and worked in the South for many years before the war. So even if one disagrees with everything he wrote you can't say he didn't know his enemy first hand. He was also stationed as an Army officer in California. And if any place needs the kind of cleansing a Sherman would provide today, it's there.
The key point in this article is not any quote, but the date: 1863. Sherman wrote that letter smack in the middle of a bloody war. So the harsh language he used must be judged from that perspective.
Many on the left want to smear historical figures based on today’s morality. I have always argued that was wrong. A person should be judged within
the context of his times. A general in the middle of a war is going to say harsh things about the enemy. I would not expect otherwise.
Sounds like the ravings of a mentally man.
Sherman’s grave is on my piss on it bucket list.
A brilliant strategist, tactician and a crazy man.
Not a good combination.
This is kind of bullshit
Sherman for all his weirdness offered very generous terms at surrender , not the terms a monster who hated southerners or confederates would have offered
Terms refused by the radical republicans ...the Schiffs and Nadlers of their day
Up to a point I understand Sherman’s desire to win
Just as I can understand the resentments from those who suffered over it
Sherman was no question a man with issues but he won
So his nest is laurels
The man was quite simply a war criminal who would have been right at home in a Nazi or Communist uniform.
He made similar quotes about his genocidal views toward Native Americans.
He also hated Blacks, Mexicans and especially Jews. His influence was key in getting his friend Grant to issue his infamous general order #11 calling for Jews to be ethnically cleansed from 3 states.
Now let’s count on some PC Revisionist apologists to come along and try to make excuses for this war criminal....
King George hated secessionists as well.
Banastre Tarleton was the Sherman of that previous generation.
I agree with Sherman’s assessment of war in general. However, I disagree with his assessment of the necessity of that war in particular. The Civil War was a violation of the 1st Amendment and the human right of freedom of association. The North should have let the South go in peace. It’s not like the South was an anarchic regime - they had a constitution and ruling bodies
I would really look closer into the Abbeville Institute. Maybe it's a Soros front designed to make the rest of the country really hate you Confederate sympathizers. It's working so far.
Not if they’re winning