[NJ Neocon]

I noticed you never proved he was a mass murder & rapist in that tirade.

Burning buildings is not murder. Your post is a total non sequitur from your claim.

The burning of Atlanta never needs to be excused. It was a brilliant an necessary move that helped save lives and sped an end to the war.

[PeaRidge]

"Burning buildings is not murder. Your post is a total non sequitur from your claim"

During the bombardment of Atlanta Sherman’s chief engineer, Captain O.M. Poe, implored Sherman to stop the bombing of the undefended city because of the grotesque spectacle of the corpses of women and children in the streets.

Sherman coldly told him that such scenes were exactly what he wanted. After destroying 90 percent of the city the federal army evicted all the remaining residents from their homes just as winter was settling in.

Sherman’s (and Lincoln’s) strategy (which Quack historian James McPherson calls "brilliant") was to terrorize the civilian population.

For example, as he swept to the sea in 1864 Sherman wrote to a subordinate, General Louis D. Watkins:

"Send over about Fairmount and Adairsville [Georgia], burn ten or twelve houses of known secessionists, kill a few at random, and let it be known that it will be repeated every time a train is fired upon ...."