[Jsalley82]

Didn’t get to see it, but a friend at work told me about it this AM.

He said - AMAZINGLY - that the History Channel told about how Sherman basically MASS MURDERED the blacks who tried to follow him out of Savannah; and what an incredible racist Sherman was.

I knew that Sherman ALLOWED the blacks to drown in the Savannah. I didn’t know that he actually had the bridge cut, CAUSING them to drown.

Sherman was a war criminal, just like his boss.

Both men show have hung for their war crimes.

Not very surprising that Lincoln was admired by the two greatest tyrants in the history of the world - Marx and Hitler - is it?

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NOPE. NOT surprising.

free dixie,sw

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He said - AMAZINGLY - that the History Channel told about how Sherman basically MASS MURDERED the blacks who tried to follow him out of Savannah; and what an incredible racist Sherman was.

I did see it, and I have no idea what channel your friend was watching but it wasn't the History Channel.

Not very surprising that Lincoln was admired by the two greatest tyrants in the history of the world - Marx and Hitler - is it?

He was also admired by great men like Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. Who the hell ever admired a POS like Jefferson Davis?

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He said - AMAZINGLY - that the History Channel told about how Sherman basically MASS MURDERED the blacks who tried to follow him out of Savannah; and what an incredible racist Sherman was. I knew that Sherman ALLOWED the blacks to drown in the Savannah. I didn’t know that he actually had the bridge cut, CAUSING them to drown.

Your friend is inaccurate as to the content of the show. And for all Sherman's faults on that march, it is wrong to say he allowed them to drown. The bridge was cut and pulled over. But the slaves were not on it at the time. They jumped into the creek on their own accord and the show, bore this out. Also Slocum's men did try to save as many as they could. My sentiments lay with the South but this part of history is fairly clear. Yes Sherman was a racist but no more than most people were then, in fact less than most Yankee's were.