[bvw]

The South should thank Tecumseh Sherman, every dang Southerner, every day. He may be the greatest general that ever lived. He fought tenaciously and victoriously in ways that minimized the loss of life. That, alone, is a Golden Crown on his head!

Sherman opened up the West. Not the railroad -- for the Indians would have beat that back eventually ... if not for Sherman's brilliant plan. He made buffalo hunting a marvelous sport, and decimated the grand herds that were the sustanence of the Indians, like oil is the sustance of Arab terror, the great bison herds, also flowing like a black liquid across the plains, were the fuel of terror.

If not for Sherman, manhood in the South would have been eradicated, ground down, the post-war "reconstruction" woud have been one giant Andersonville. The South would be a poor, despirited region today.

We all would be the worse -- the North would be more spiteful than the South ever was, and poorer for that.

Sherman was the saviour of the South! Hurah, hooray!

[bvw]

See my reply above.

Sherman was pro-life. Period.

When you whine and complain about the grevious material losses he inflicted on the South, where he single-handedly destroyed the idolatorous pillars of pride the pre-bellum South was unwisely built on ... all you all sound like Micheal Schiavo and his camp. Pride in material things is more important to you than life?

[Wampus SC]

Whew! It happens every time, I tell ya, every time. :|

I'll just go by what Sherman said about himself. Another time, another thread. Thanks.