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Well, bushy, it was Lee on the hot seat at Appomattox, if you do care to remember, not Grant. That sums it up and pretty much says it all. Had Sherman fought the way he did for the Confederates, I doubt not that you'd be all over this thread praising him as the greatest general since Hannibal, and flaming those who disagreed. Sherman was the first modern warrior--and a great one. If you really, really, really want to get into the silly "war crimes" game, I'd be more than happy to discuss Fort Pillow--among other "incidents"--with you...(snicker)....

432 posted on 11/14/2004 10:35:01 PM PST by A Jovial Cad ("I had no shoes and I complained, until I saw a man who had no feet.")

You really are some kind of id*ot if you think Ft. Pillow was anything more than Yankees getting soundly defeated. Congressional hearings after the war proved it was no slaughter. When you are given a chance to surrender, which they were, and refused, which they did, then you lose a LOT of lives, which happened.