Quote Originally Posted by CBR View Post
I can read his order no 120 for the March to the Sea. Seems pretty clear that he was nowhere near what we see in other wars.

It is easy to check about Albert Einstein. Where is the stuff about Sherman? I have found a lot of what seem to be pro-southern emotional drivel so far. Your link provides no facts except for some quotes. There is a book title though: War Crimes Against Southern Civilians. That must be it then? I buy that book and it will tell all the juicy stuff about the monster Sherman? Any other books I should get ?

Is it really surprising that there are emotional rants against the man?

It has been 145 years but there is still great bitterness on the part of many people in Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas.

His own words and attitudes are not enough? You do not wish to take the man at his word during the war but in his recollections he has in an understated way admitted that his men wrecked violence and murder, though he shies from the rape charges by that time and in a more civil environment.

Of course, postwar he was head of the army and we see his policies at work against the Indian Nations of the plains and west coast.

Does anyone doubt that there were atrocities committed against the Indian Nations?

These were often against tribes and bands who were at peace the US.

Was this something new, or was it a continuation of policies first employed against the south?