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Lee lived off the land throughout his campaigns in the north. His troops routinely issued demands for food and supplies from northern towns that they occupied, threatening to burn the towns if demands weren't met. After all, Gettysburgh occured because Harry Heath sent his troops there to loot a shoe factory. The irony is that the factory had been stripped by Ewell's men a few days before. And when Early's men burned Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in June of 1864 I don't recall Lee making any complaints about it.

As for the indians, you seem to forget that the Cherokee nation was uprooted and sent west on their Trail of Tears inthe 1820's at the behest of the people of North Carolina and Georgia. Most of the initial troops were Georgia militia. Don't preach to me about love and respect for Indians. Neither side has clean hands where that is concerned.

As to Lee vs. Sherman and Grant, where the heck did you get that statistic - League of the South? Lee was as fine man and a good general but he met his match in Grant and Sherman. Lee beat every general the North sent against him until Meade. Grant beat every general the south sent his way period.

OK, I'll bite on the trivia question. What's the answer?

"Lee lived off the land throughout his campaigns in the north. His troops routinely issued demands for food and supplies from northern towns that they occupied, threatening to burn the towns if demands weren't met."

Lee left I.O.U.'s for supplies and he burned nothing. Contrast this with Sherman who had acquired by force the best of every kind of provision and the finest steeds in the nation by the time he ended his "March to the Sea"

"And when Early's men burned Chambersburg"

This was Early's decision alone as a revenge for atrocities by the Union in the Shenandoah Valley. Early asked for compensation first to pay for homes that were destroyed. The town refused, he burned it. Interesting that it did not happen again and you do not know what Lee said to Early. Either way it is a far cry from Sherman's plan to put innocent civilians in freight cars then pull them "by means of a long rope" across places where explosive charges were suspected so they could blow themselves up.

"As for the Indians, you seem to forget that the Cherokee nation was uprooted and sent west on their Trail of Tears in the 1820's at the behest of the people of North Carolina and Georgia. Most of the initial troops were Georgia militia."

Although I would dispute your facts, I will accept them for the sake that you make my point. NC and GA were part of the Union so it was a Union act. Committed under the flag of our Nation. We do not hate "Old Glory" or our early heritage it is ridiculous to do so. Yet, you would have me hate my history. Why can you not adopt Sherman's view of Slavery if you love him so much? His words.. "the people of Louisiana were hardly responsible for slavery, as they had inherited it" I submit to you I too inherited slavery as did most of the South and her fighting men.

" Neither side has clean hands where that is concerned."

Sorry, there were no sides then. This was a U.S. atrocity, but I still wave the American Flag. There were Indians fighting for the Confederacy though, but I am sure you know that.