Agree.
It's not really, he simply did what thousands of other commanders throughout history have done; made war hell for everyone.How's is that Sherman's fault though?
@ drone
You're probably right about Reconstruction being the biggest itch. The problem with the southerners is that they're... well. southerners. My parents recently moved to Savannah and over the two odd years they've lived there now, I've come to learn more and more about southern history and the Civil War era, which I've always found pretty boring. Even with trying to learn from various sources (with their own inherent biases), pretty much everything I've read has given me an increasingly dim view of the South and southern culture. They resisted due processes of government. When they couldn't get their way, they tore up the constitution and broke away. They howled and yelled and pointed the finger at the north for starting a 'war of aggression', which they still call to this day and ignore the fact that they started it. After they'd been defeated, they resented northern occupation and military rule, which I guess I can see to an extent. The worst in my view was what drone highlighted, reconstruction. They opposed all of the progressive laws and movements made over the following decade, which saw such things as more civil rights and liberties for minorities, but integration efforts, and even some black leadership at the government level. Not only did they resent it, when they (the southern government reps in the senate) regained some measure of power and autonomy, they categorically and systematically undid most all of what the north accomplished.
So in short, they were not only embittered in defeat, they resented being pushed down a more civilized path and resisted strongly any and all changes to their precious heritage and culture.
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