Well that's a lie. Interestingly enough after reading your continous AOL historical perspective, I did a search on sherman march civilians killed. It took .13 seconds and I got 6,620 hits. Mind you there are a couple of kooks out there like Mark Grimsley (even Grimsley does admit Sherman was doing nothing different than other Empire generals) but suprisingly quite a few accept the fact that Sherman's army killed or raped more than three civilians. Since you use a socialist like McPhernut for your case, I thought one you may be interested in is from the
But surely Walt there must be more. And of course from DiLorenzo a stated fact, not opinion
Another Sherman biographer, Lee Kennett, found that in Sherman’s army "the New York regiments were . . . filled with big city criminals and foreigners fresh from the jails of the Old World." Although it is rarely mentioned by "mainstream" historians, many acts of rape were committed by these federal soldiers. The University of South Carolina’s library contains a large collection of thousands diaries and letters of Southern women that mention these unspeakable atrocities.Here
Why don't you take a trip up to USC? Look at the diaries and call them all lies as well? What? Only your sanitized 'praise lincoln' history can be correct? Putting a little tarnish on your idol and god are we? Well what do you know, here's another one...
“A raiding party from Sherman’s army on its way north came to the home of Robert Hemphill, a wealthy South Carolina planter. In the absence of all white men, they were met by a trusted old Negro, Burrell Hemphill. When the faithful slave refused to reveal the hiding place of the family valuables, the raiders dragged him at the end of a rope into the forest, hanged him and riddled his body with bullets. His 12-year-old grandson witnessed the whole proceedings. A granite marker now stands 3 miles northeast of Blackstock, South Carolina. It is engraved: In memory of Burrell Hemphill, killed by Union soldiers February 1865. Although a slave he gave his life rather than betray a trust.”Here
Good Lord, Walt!!!! There's a marker even. And he was black to boot!! Oh, I'm having a seizure!! Surely a black civilian couldn't willingly deny the union soldiers. Why, why they were there to free him even!! Better go see if you can get that torn down, because if that's stone stands, your argument doesn't
Search on this string:
civil war Thomas Sanders William Leroy Moore sherman
Those men's names do not appear anywhere on the internet.
It's just more lying neo-reb crap.
Walt
Kudos to Burrell Hemphill, may he rest in peace.