[Drennan Whyte]

There was pillage and burning enough on both sides, and when the war was far from over. Sherman's actions in Georgia were preceded, on a smaller scale, by confederate looting in Pennsylvania by Lee's men and the burning of Chambersburg by McCausland. It should be noted that a number of other Union cities would have suffered the same fate as Chambersburg except that they met the confederate ransom demands.

[GOPcapitalist]

There was pillage and burning enough on both sides, and when the war was far from over. Sherman's actions in Georgia were preceded, on a smaller scale, by confederate looting in Pennsylvania by Lee's men and the burning of Chambersburg by McCausland. It should be noted that a number of other Union cities would have suffered the same fate as Chambersburg except that they met the confederate ransom demands.

Your attempted equivalence is amusing. There is simply no comparison to be made between Sherman's pillage of the south's major cities and one confederate band's burning of a single hick town in backwoods Pennsylvania. Even if there were, two wrongs do not make a right. Your "both sides did it" argument will not buy you any ground against the inexcusable actions of the northern armies against southern civilians.

[Old Professer]

B.S.

[Secesh]

This is intellectually dishonest. There is no comparison between the Confederate and Union forces. The former generally strictly avoided abuses against civilians; the latter used total war on women and children to such a marked degree that Sherman and other Union generals would be guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity had there been any tribunal and authority to compel a trial. Marching through Pennsylvania on the way to Gettysburg, General Lee gave strict orders not to take civilian property without compensation or harm civilians. I remember some Confederate officers were punished for merely taking fence posts to use as firewood.

Chambersburg was an exception to the rule and in response to Northern atrocities. I notice that Yankees are not above making up facts as McPherson does regularly to reinforce their arguments. Shame on you, Sir!