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. And no doubt you have verifiable information to document these claims? How about posting it.
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.
And what about the air campaigns in World War II, Viet Nam and the Gulf?
Vol III of Shelby Foote's works details the stealing of blankets from shivering patients while their hospitals burned. His book also documents the Ursaline Convent episode, but only says that Sherman's goons dished out "special" punishment to the nuns. If he burned everything else in the city, and meted out "special" punishment to the nuns, I look forward to your guess as to what that might have been. In Mr. Foote's defense, if I worked for 10 to 15 years, or whatever it was, on a book, I would probably soft pedal the most severe war crimes as well, because one sentence of the truth would have caused the volumes to be blacklisted by people, such as yourself, who irrationally cling to a sanitized version of the events in South Carolina.
The article, on which this thread is based, illustrates brilliantly the techniques of propaganda...the authors confess to 1% of the horrors committed by Lincoln/Sherman, (i.e., Georgia) and hope people will not look at the real horrors (South Carolina). It has worked for over 130 years, so far.
Are you saying that we AVOIDED military targets, in order to bomb civilians, in the bombings that you mentioned? Sherman AVOIDED military targets so that he could attack women and children. I repeat, no other U.S. military force has ever done that.