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Homes in Georgia that were occupied were typically -not- burned by Sherman's men. South Carolina got the treatment its leaders brought down on themselves though arrogance, hubris and treason.

You think the women and children of South Carolina who were raped and murdered by this beast deserved it? Including the nuns in the Ursaline Convent in Columbia, who were gang-raped because the brother of the mother superior was a secessionist? The sick people in hospitals, who were put outside in the cold to watch the hospital burn, and then had their blankets stolen by Sherman's goons - they deserved it? I hope the whole board reads and re-reads your comment to see that no post by you is deserving of even a modicum of respect.

The U.S. has never in its history, except for Lincoln/Sherman, send a fully equipped army against unarmed women and children. And, as long as people(sic) like you are kept out of power, we never will again.

Homes in Georgia that were occupied were typically -not- biurned by Sherman's men. South Carolina got the treatment its leaders brought down on themselves though arrogance, hubris and treason.

BWHAHAHAHAHA!!! That's a good one Walt? Will you be here all week?

And in his memoirs, Sherman described the spectacle: "Behind us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city."
General Sherman declared on January 31, 1864 that "To the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy." In a July 31, 1862 letter to his wife he said his goal was "extermination, not of soldiers alone, that is the least part of the trouble, but the people."
After the destruction of Meridian Sherman boasted that "for five days, ten thousand of our men worked hard and with a will, in that work of destruction, with axes, sledges, crowbars, clawbars, and with fire.... Meridian no longer exists."
Sherman biographer Lee Kennett is among the historians who bend over backwards to downplay the horrors of how Lincoln waged war on civilians. Just recently, he published an article in the Atlanta Constitution arguing that Sherman wasn’t such a bad guy after all and should not be reviled by Georgians as much as he is. But even Kennett admitted in his biography of Sherman that: Had the Confederates somehow won, had their victory put them in position to bring their chief opponents before some sort of tribunal, they would have found themselves justified...in stringing up President Lincoln and the entire Union high command for violations of the laws of war, specifically for waging war against noncombatants.

William Tecumseh Sherman, a most worthless man