actually blamed for, and ridiculed, for killing people of his own kind mercilessly by sending them into battle and slaughtering the foe so... ruthlessly. While Sherman starved out the south (rich and poor), Grant murdered teenage boys and boys of all ages as they came to him during fighting. Both are respected generals and geniuses, and both deserve the same amount of respect.
@cujo53 No, sorry. Grant and Sherman discussed their plan of action in a hotel room, in which Sherman would take Atlanta, and then he sent for approval for his march to the sea, and Grant approved of it. Sherman and Grant became best friends, not to mention, and Grant approved of everything Sherman did - and even thanked him for it. Grant -made- Sherman lead general of the army when he became president - if Grant didn't agree with Sherman's tactics, he wouldn't have done that. And Grant is
@cujo53 How can you have respect for Grant, someone who adored Sherman and honored him, respected him and was grateful for what he did - but not like Sherman? That doesn't make any sense. Grant made plans with Sherman for the march to the sea, Grant approved of it, Grant over saw what he did and supported it.
@beckii6vr Not going to argue with you about Grant but you are incorrect. Sherman was given command of the Union Army of Tennessee shortly after the Battle of Chattanooga. Grant took the appointment to go to Grand Army of the Potomac and fight against Lee in the early fall of 1863. Sherman was left in charge of said army with the blessings of Lincol, Grant, and the War Department. He recieved permission from the War Department and not Grant .
Grant was never asked nor did he ever give permission for Sherman to carry out his "March to the Sea" and live off the fat of the Georgia land. Grant never attacked civilian target which is exactly what Sherman did. I have been to Atlanta at least 20 times in my life, I have been to Milledgeville, all along the path to Savana and lat but not least Columbia, South CArolina. What Sherman allowed his troops called "Bummers yes it where we get the name "BUM" to do is unexcuseable for anyone.
For anyone that believes that Sherman is a hero, but I will agree that he did shorten the war but at what price, please come to Atlanta, Milledgeville, and all the little towns and villages eastward to Savanna and then up to Columbia, South Carolina before you try to hold this man up as a hero. See and hear for yourself from the state, federal and local historian. As long as any native people to Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee live - he will always be a criminal to us.
fields, along with trains for transportation. Rarely was a civilian ever harmed, unless someone out of over 60,000 men got out of hand - in which, as said, was rare. So people should look into Sherman, and consider, his burning of materialistic objects necessary to the war a blessing. He could have slaughtered people - but he didn't. He took their supplies, and that was all.
I don't understand how people insist on calling Sherman a war criminal, when he spoon-fed Georgia and South Carolina exactly what they dished out. South Carolina started a war that killed thousands of people and Georgia supported slaughtering of men for what? Secession? State's rights? What does any of it matter when the country is divided. Sherman is a war hero. Considering, if you read into what he did, rarely any civilians were actually wounded or hurt. He burnt empty homes and supply
@beckii6vr You don't know what a war criminal is, that is your problem, asshole. Why do you think the homes were empty and upon what do you expect they would subsist?
Can anyone answer this question. If the north thought slavery morally wrong how could they try to eradicate American Indians? They held no sympathy for women and children then. I guess you do not see American Indians as humans. The north did not fight for morality when they had none
Finally those of you who are truly saved and are welcomed into heaven will be able to see first hand what generals and historical figures went to heaven. Hope to see you all there. Lastly the story about General Lee's father Light Horse Harry Lee. If it's true Lee's father was not an active part in raising his son. Lee was raised by his mother so he learned nothing from his father. Do not hold the the son accountable for his fathers sins. Now go out and learn true American history. Good day
To keep the south from having revenue and being successful. The war was about power. Many previous slaves were not even welcome in the north after the war and had to stay on plantations and sharecrop along with many poor white families. Many of you seem to believe everything you hear in schools or whatever you read instead of think for yourselves and the only words you seem to spell correctly is profanity.
Hence the riots in New York against fighting. You may approve what Sherman and Grant did but what about after the war when they went west and tortured, raped, murdered American Indians. How can you truly believe that they fought for the end of slavery to then go west and murder Indians? Hypocritical is it not? If they were true Christians who cared about slaves they could not murder another race. The march to the sea was to completely devastate the south.
After reading many of these comments full of filth it is no surprise why this country is in the dumps. Many of you can't spell or read apparently. Beauregard, Lee and Stonewall never raped anyone. They were christian men who held revivals. Grant and Sherman were drunks and that is not something made up those are the facts. Even Lincoln had no intention in the beginning of the war to introduce the topic of slavery. He was against it but it was not a popular stance even among northerners.
sherman was one badass motherfucker that you didnt want to mess with,he had his own private army,and was given the task of setting the south on fire and striking at the heart of the enemy!!!!!!!!
@TThorne931 It is your type of conversation that makes the people of Tennessee so proud that we are still in the Union. If you are so proud of your "Uncle Billy" then as we Tennesseans say "bless your heart" may you be sent to be with him for all eternity.
Neo-Confederates whining Lincoln was "a tyrant". Why? Because he wouldn't let a bunch of rebels void a national election? And saying that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery. It had EVERYTHING to do with slavery! And saying it was mainly about "States Rights". The only "rights" the confederacy was interested in was being able to maintain and extend slavery--the "right" to keep a whole population of human beings as basically livestock. You lost because your cause was morally wrong!
@frantic1971 You are the stupidest person ive seen comment so far. The War of Northern Aggression (A.K.A " TheCivil War.") Was fouhgt because of state rights of the south. They didnt have a say in the goverment anymoe so succedded and made a treaty with the north. But the Yanks would not vacate a military fort in the south so they vacated it by force. SLavery was only a very minor part and lincoln only attepted to free the slaves in the south while in the north it he didnt.
Only in a America is the loser allowed to rewrite the history books lol. The United States is sooooo fuckin horrible they even let ya'll fly ya'lls traitor flags. You know in the Soviet Union they would have round ya'll up killed 100,000 of ya'll and put the rest to work......like slaves and they sure as hell would not let you fly that shit. The south brought this upon themselves and they refuse to own up to it....next time win the fucking war or stfu
@slyfox3333 The war of southern Aggression was fought over the Attack of a United States Fort in United States terrirtory . you have no right to order a fort vacated . Slavery was the most important thing your army of rapists and murderers were smashed down by the Rightous anger of Sherman grant mcellen and Lincoln
@TThorne931 You truly are one of the biggest idiots on youtube. In a reply to slyfox and me, you had at least four word spelled incorrectly. (Beauregard, delivering, inferiority & McClellan) Where were you educated, in the North I bet? Also Fort Sumter was within the coastal waters of South Carolina, so if South Carolina seceded, which it did, the fort was within the legal limits of ownership by South Carolina. "South Carolina, standing alone, fighting Northern aggression since 1861."
Even General Grant didnt free his slaves until after the war. Also if the south had won the war slavery would have evaporated because it is based off of an agricultural society with the south is no more. Oh and by the way only 10% of southerners owned slaves as most were agianst it.
@slyfox3333 I like how the Slavers say well if we Haden't had started the War of southern Aggression to conquer the United States thing would be dun different . Who cares your people are filthy inbreed neo nazis Fuck them all to hell
I think the incidence of rape during Sherman's March was much greater than generally known. After all, this was the 1860's and rape was not something you were going to tell your grandchildren about in after years--whether you were a soldier who did it or were a woman who was a victim of it. Many Union soldiers were from the Northern city slums and criminal classes.
@farmerne I think your talking about the CSA there everyone knows every member of the CSA took an oath to defend Slavery and socalism . they were rapists thugs slavers and rascist they executed and raped the dead bodies of POWs of Unionist peace keepers . All union soldiers were good Christian fighting men
Shakezulah, there are acceptable and unacceptable rules of war. Sherman broke all of them which is a testament to his character that he had no feelings for the citizens who were non-combatants during this war. Just my opinion.
@cujo53 “This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.” William Tecumseh Sherman
What do you call the "Sons of Liberty" and the "Daughters of Liberty" during the Revolutionary War. Many were non-combatants and the British did not burn their cities and destroy their property and rape and plunder while the head of the army turned his head the way Sherman did in the Civil War. If that be the case, the British would have burned and stole everything in New England. As I said earlier, there are acceptable and unacceptable rules of war and Sherman broke them all!!
I see Sherman's March like dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Certainly, it was horrible and cruel, but had his march not occurred (like had Truman not ordered the bombings) many more people, yankee and rebel, would have perished before the war would have ended. In hindsight, southerners, would you rather have had Sherman burn Georgia's crops and homes and other material possessions, or would you rather have had the Union army kill 100,000 more southern boys to end the war?
While I'm a damyankee (that's one word, folks; it's not spelled with a hyphen nor is it with two words)living in Texas, I'm saying that you're the south-end of a north-bound horse. As Bugs would say, "What a maroon!"
You dumb Yankee Jackass. Just because he was a proclaimed christian doesn't mean anything. More proclaimed christians will be in hell than heaven. Also, to make war against civilians is a criminal act by all modern standards of warfare. Almost every professor will tell you that he would be tried as a war criminal today. If you are well read in history you KNOW that he had major mental problems and that his banking venture before the war ended up in him going bankrupt. He is playing cards in hell
@cujo53 that was then this is today and why thank you i myself am a proud yankee. and the south was to powerful i am willing to admit that but a powerful army is usless when they are ON FIRE YEAH BITCH ONE BREGADE OF YANKS WENT THROUGH AND BURNED THAT SHIT TO THE GROUNG GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!! USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA!!!!!
It is people like you that make the moderate southerners dislike the people of the north today. Anyone that takes pleasure at the death and destruction of civilian targets instead of military ones is a poor excuse for a human being. I truly feel sorry for you because of the anger that still exists in your posts. Also, you posts are not well written that probably shows your superior northern education,hahahaha!!! I have taught history for over 30 years with a B.S & M.S. Degrees.
@cujo53 Yeah, well if you taught history for that many years, then you should be aware of the state-sponsored terror, which Southern Unionists lived with every day of their lives, starting with the secession crisis.
Uh, maybe you should take that message to your own so-called "heritage". It's a nothing but a hive of hatred. You can start right here on You-tube, with all of those tribute vids to the song " I'm A Good Old Rebel". The lyrics really DO represent people in the South...
@cujo53 Once you've finished with that. Take a trip over to the tribute vids to people like John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Bill Anderson, and William Quantrill. Men being proclaimed as "true Southern heroes. Which of course, is correct. Those men are indeed the embodiment of what a Southern 'gentleman' is.
Stonedead Jackson wanted the CSA to pursue a policy of taking no Union prisoners. He's a hero. Sherman is supposedly a villain for destroying property.
@UnionStatesHeritage Yep, Stonedead, Bobby Lee, Jeff Davis, and the rest of the Confederate slag heap, are all Christian men, currently tending to Mr. Beelzebub's furnace.
@UnionStatesHeritage You have picked the worst of the worst of Southern men, I agree they are no better than Sherman, they were all cut from the same cloth. Iam a proud Southerner and make no apology for it. If you are not Southern what Iam about to write from a speech from Edward Ward Carmack after the Civil War will not mean anything to you but for Southern born and breed people it is how beloved we think and care for our part of the United States, the South.
@UnionStatesHeritage Here it is, "Pledge to the South" - The South is a land that has known sorrow; Its is a land that has broken the ashen crust and moistened it with its tears; A land scarred and riven by the plowshare of war and billowedwith the graves of her dead; But a land of legend, a land of song, a land of Hallowed and Heroic memories. To that land every drop of my blood, every fiber of my being, every pulsation of my heart, is consecreated forever. I was born of her womb, I was
@UnionStatesHeritage nurtured at her breast; And when my last hour shall come, I pray God that I may be pillowed upon her bosom and rocked to sleep within her tender and encircling arms. This was a speech given by U.S. Representative Carmack from Tennessee after the Civil War on the floor of the house of rep. He was given a standing ovation from the gentlemen of the South. This speech is placed in high school and college annuals throughout the South and it does mean the world to most of us.
@TThorne931 You just don't understand. You made five major spelling errors dealing with generals and others and not just one error, they were not typing errors, in one short paragraph. That is why I said you must be in the third grade. Also grade is not capitalized. "South Carolina, standing alone, fighting Northern aggression since 1861". Funny you called me a "commie" when all my life I have taught American History and Iam an American patriot who sees things different dealing with Sherman.
@cujo53 HAHAHAHAHAH you filthy Communist how about you go suck off Hitler you Hate America . Sherman is the patron saint of the South having saved them from evil in 64' Whoever would make you a teacher marks the inadaquacy of southenr leanring .
@TThorne931 I will not write to you any more because you are a troll. As I said earlier, you are very ignorant and must be very young. Go back to school tomorrow and take your coloring book with you. If anyone doesn't agree with you then they are a communist. You have not made one valid point but yet everyone else that disagrees with you is wrong. Also, I just love the insult which shows how much class you have to revert to using such a nasty statement but I guess Sherman would have approved!!!!
@cujo53 Leave us alone with your bullshit. We do not care that you have a degree, we do not care if you view us as still "angry", and we do not care that civilians were killed in the Civil War. Just as southerners didn't care that border ruffians were being sent to unduly influence other states they had no business in. Simply put, you got back what you gave out. You were seen as chattel running cotton kings with undue influence spreading west. Karma raped you, not Sherman.
@MaverickWhig How ignorant can one person be. You must be like a lot of liberals that don't want to know the truth. Sherman was a war criminal plain and simple. Ask almost any college professor and they will tell you that. I guess you don't want to know the truth. If knowledge and truth is bullshit then you have been lied to all your life. General W. T. Sherman is in hell playing cards with Adolf Hitler and Jospeh Stalin. I have respect for General Grant but none at all for Sherman the criminal
@cujo53 I read this response and I think, "It's almost like he didn't even read what I said".
I'm a liberal? Based off of what? That I disagree with you? Perhaps liberal, in the classical sense, but certainly not in the sense I know you're trying to convey.
"Sherman was a war criminal, ask any college professor"
Why? Honestly, that means nothing to me that college professors feel he was a criminal. Fuck 'em, and fuck you.
@cujo53 Oh, and BTW, you're the one who doesn't want to know the truth Sir. You didn't even take the time to deny or confirm my claim that the South got back what it put out. You didn't even try to tell me that I was wrong about Ruffians from the South going into newly admitted states to influence them to allow slavery to expand. The fact that you couldn't even tell me I'm wrong, that you resorted to telling me that I'm a "liberal" (OH NO!), tells me you know I'm right. You're hardly a scholar.
@johnscottnf96 I'm sorry but I don't put your history, ancestry and heritage down...we are all USA today. Thanks to many like my grandfathers in WWII, my dad in Vietnam and as far back as the Revolution. It's your rhetoric of BS and put downs that piss Southerners off. I'm an educator in history and science and VERY proud American that is from Georgia. It's also quite interesting to think that those same Southerners have been overwhelmingly more supportive of our troops even in Vietnam.
@johnscottnf96 Oh, I forgot to add that I can link my heritage back to not only fighting in the Revolution and in all wars since, but I'm also part Cherokee...you know, Native American, so my ancestors where "Southerners" before people started using that term. But we can discuss that history and how my peoples and other Natives were treated for later when you have studied the history of this great Nation better. And y'all call Us uneducated and not well-read...
@cujo53 “If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking” William Tecumseh Sherman
@cujo53 Sherman had some issues but he only damaged small government buildings unlike the Souths Quantrill who raped and murdered civilians in Kansas. I love how Sherman gets all this blame from the South for destroying government buildings but Jesse James and Quantrill are considered Heros for robbing, raping and murder.
Quantrill was an outlaw and I agree that he is no better than Sherman, only difference was that Kansas was a totally divided territory with two sides including citizens for the most part always fighting each other, thus the term "bleeding Kansas". This was going on before the civil war started check out "John Brown" and what he did in Kansas. Truly an outlaw state with both a confederate and union government with each one trying to "burn out" the other as in Lawrence, Kansas.
I live only 35 miles from the Georgia border in Tennessee and go there quite often. Sherman burned about 1/3 of Atlanta to the ground including the downtown area, he pillaged, spread terror and burned Milledgeville , and burned all parts of Columbia, SC to the ground. He was a war criminal. When Sherman first got into Columbia , the first thing he did was ask when the Baptist Church was were the articles of seperation were signed and then sent his soldiers to burn it.
My last post. Go visit Atlanta, Milledgeville, Columbia and see and hear for yourself. Sherman is still the most hated man in Georgia and South Carolina today. He ALLOWED unspeakable things to be done to the citizens while he turned his back. As far as small gov't building - you HAVE to be joking!!!! Also have you heard of Sherman "Bow Ties". Look it up. One thing that Iam sure of is that Sherman, Hitler, and Stalin are playing poker in Hell as we speak. Enjoy the FIRE boys!!!
@cujo53 Do you have actual proof of this or are you just going with the myths started after the war? There was a lot of shit made up about Sherman and all of Union by the South after the war. Sherman never ordered the killing of any civilians or the burning of any Churches that is all myths the South made up because they were pissed that they lost. I can see you've been trolling on every Sherman video on youtube, posting the same comments.
Don't believe me then but go to the State Capital of South Carolina and listen to their historian. Go to the cyclorama at Grant Park in Downtown Atlanta and watch and listen to their show, write to the city officials of MIlledgeville and SEE what they tell you. I live near these places and have been there and done that. Also is have taught U.S. History for 37 years and have a b.s. from mtsu and a masters from Trevecca. I do despise the memory of Sherman just like that of Hitler.
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@cujo53 Ah that Southern Revisionist history, I'm from Jersey and sadly now stuck in Florida and you Southern History teachers love teaching Revisionist History teachers try to tell me Jesse James and Quantrill are heros, Sherman was bad, Lincoln was evil, Catholics are evil, the KKK is good etc. Also with all of the trolling that you do on Sherman videos I doubt you are a teacher you are probably some 16 year old who hates the North and mad the South Lost.
@cujo53 So Lee is in hell with jackson and bouregard . Sherman was a Christian saint deliving a Swift strike against those who waged war on the People of the United States. Don't be mad of your inferority
The Southerners beef with Sherman was that he not only beat them but spit on their southern pride and arrogance. Sherman showed them what the price of treason and rebellion were. The southerners should examine history and see how the losers in other nations civil wars were treated and then maybe they would stop bi****n...
@MrMojoRisinII It's not all Sherman that we blame...Lincoln, I feel had a great plan in bringing the US back together but unfortunately was unable to carry out that plan because of a crazy assassin (yes, I know JWB was southern...but individuals don't represent a population). The problem was the after-math handed down by his successor (Andrew Johnson...don't want you to have to look it up) and the carpetbaggers and other profiteers that basted in wealth at the expense of the Southerners.
That might be all well and fine reserved for another discussion. Sherman the topic at hand was a war criminal under almost any nations standard rules of war. Also, he was crazy and a manic depressive. Guess all those horrible things he did to CIVILIANS bothered him later in life. If he was alive today and on fire, I would not piss on him to put it out. Him and Hitler are playing cards in hell today. Enjoy the fire boys.
By todays standards, General Sherman would have been tried as a war criminal. Had the North not won the civil war, he would have been tried as a war criminal. It is a well known fact among educated people that have studied history that Sherman had mental problems most of his life. If there are two people hell its sherman and Hitler. Hope they enjoy playing cards and burning forever. Making women, children, and older men suffer is uncalled for in any war unless they take a active part in the war.
He showed the southern confederacy what the price of treason and rebellion were. The arrogant southerners wanted the war, and they got in in full. The confederates sowed the winf, and reaped the whirlwind. And his name was Sherman.
@bloodngutspatriot i meant what i wrote as a joke...and it just wasnt funny. i am really sorry. and in light of what has recently happened in the south, i am ashamed of myself. sooooo sorry! i really do love the south, and have so much respect for you guys...you built this country! it might not have been the prettiest situation but you were the workers!
sherman is the greatest coward in the union he took southern people hostage for capured federal soilders and excuted many to there were also points were he was having trouble breaking through so he went after the civillan population and terrorized them fuck sherman hope hes rotting in hell
Sherman is perhaps the greatest man America has ever produced. I am saddened that these Johnny Reb's are trying to bring a great man down. Try to secede again and he will rise again to burn your cotton picking towns to cinders again. To see his likes again would make even the most celibate of womens thighs drip.
@Kaeladino I understand what your saying, war is war. His war on the Peoples is.. "ok'd" by many. If we did that today, the world would have the US by it's neck and demanding justice. Guess my Q. would be, what would the N say if Lee did the same thing when he came N.? No.. sherman is a waste and a scallywag, let alone a murderer of both people and a constitution!!
@statesrights01 There is no such thing as rules of engagement when it comes to war especially in the heat of battle. War is hell and to win it you have to break the will of the people of the Country as well as its army. That was what Sherman did in his march through the South. As far as modern time goes we did it to the Germans and we dropped the A Bomb on Japan and we certainly did it in Vietnam and lately we committed a total act of aggression by going into Iraq. Sad but true war is hell.
What constutuion? You left the Union. You had no rights. You were traitors and you were treated as such. Sherman should have strung up all the confederate officers and politicians he came across.
He gleefully laid waste to Georgia and South Carolina and rightfully so. More Americans were murdered by Confederates at Andersonville than on the Bataan Death march.
You wanted the war, you got it. You and the rest of youa rrogant southerners just don't like the results..
@MrMojoRisinII shows how smart you are.. how in the hell do you get 'traitors"? when we left England, the USA was Traitors.. when the S. left the union.. they were NOT traitors. Not sure what 6th grade school book your getting your info from. Try reading some real history before you get on here and pop off at the mouth. You don't do your people any good by looking stupid!
@johnscottnf96 hmm.. yeah... so.. tell me john, what was your hero's point of view on the Black man?? how about lincolns, or grants?? wow.. they all Hated the Black man with a passion. That's a fact on your "right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happines" so.. before you go running off the mouth, try reading some history. till then, don't waste my time
I hope that Sherman is reaping the full rewards of his conduct during the War of Northern Aggression in whatever place he now resides. It is true that the Confedracy produced some equally brutal leaders however to take Bloody Bill Anderson's example, his brutality stemmed from the death of his sister at the hands of the Union. Sherman's waged war against Southern women and children in the hopes of a bright political future.
althesmith, I agree with you both about Thomas not getting enough credit (I don't know that he was head and shoulders above the rest, but he definitely was underrated in his time and continues to be underrated today), and about Jefferson Davis not being a very wise or prudent leader.
Sherman's March was justified jk I dont care but come on people what did you expect a war to be? Civilized!? war was never meant to be that way and besides the south wasn't considered at the time reasonable either. One word SLAVERY!!!
You are aware that several Northern States continued the practice of slavery long after the Confederacy was destroyed right? No? Don't worry it's not your fault, history is written by the winners and the "education" system has long been hijacked by left wing activists.
@03pn11 I agree on all but one point..."education system long been hijacked by left wing activists" come on really? As an educator in the public school system I have to disagree..I mean, the worst thing that ever happened to education was/is No Child Left Behind and those unfunded mandates, didn't Bush, a right-winger, do that?
@Kaykey30635 Ya thats true. People who say the problem is left wing are just ignorant. But the main problem with the education system is the students themselves. There is an idea that education is "white" and many black students (at least here in the south) just skip class or act like jackasses. There is a public school near where I live where a lot of the black students, if they even go to class, sit in the back of the room and masturbate. Its a fucked up mentality thats ruining our system.
I still think that George Thomas never got the credit due to him because being a southerner, the government distrusted him, and being a pro-Union southerner, he was villified by the south. But as a strategist, as a tactician, and as a man who never lost his head in a crisis, he stood head and shoulders above just about every other general officer, North or South, imho.
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the exiting government, and form a new one that suits them better" ~Abraham Lincoln, floor of Congress, 1847.
A far worse war criminal was Hood, who ended up getting half of his own army crippled or maimed for life for absolutely no reason other than he was mad at them.
@althesmith He was ordered to attack even though he was facing 2 separate armies, both 50% bigger than his own. Total no-win situation. "Uncle Joe" was preserving the army, but he wouldn't have held Atlanta or stopped the March to the Sea, he would just just gotten himself outflanked and retreated until his back was against the sea. At least letting Hood try to cut Sherman's supply line made some sense, nobody knew Sherman could just live off the land with so many troops, which was unorthodox
@Statalyzer : I was mainly referring to the attack at Franklin, plus the useless "Last Stand" at Nashville. He was ticked off at his officers for letting Schofield get away at Spring Hill, and took it out ultimately on his men by ordering them to attack an entrenched position with next to no artillery support and facing nearly equal numbers. What made it ludicrous was that Forrest could've flanked them out of the position, and in any case Schofield was planning to abandon that position anyhow.
@Statalyzer: At Franklin Hood practically eviscerated his own army, certainly losing many of his best officers. His only defence was his opium addiction which fuzzed up his brain. Yes, the man was in constant pain- he should've resigned his commission. But he didn't. And he put himself into a position even the lowest privates in his army knew was untenable at Nashville. To quote Corporal Sam Watkins "As a General, he was a failure in every particular."
@althesmith "He was ticked off at his officers for letting Schofield get away at Spring Hill" - as he should have been. Attacking Franklin frontally was certainly stupid. There wasn't really anything he could have done positively at that point is what most people forget. He could have at least just ran off and kept his men alive till the war ended. Hood's an excellent example of the Peter Principle - he was great as a bridgade & division commander, but got promoted far above his competance.
@Statalyzer : The most dumbass move Davis made was denying promotion to Cleburne because of his views against slavery, and giving it to Hood. Cleburne knew how to save his men's lives AND how to win battles.
@althesmith Cleburne still had no chance to defeat Sherman and then turn around and defeat Thomas. The war was lost by then as the most prudent thing Davis could have done would have been to surrender.
@Statalyzer : I've read Shelby Foote's Civil War: A Narrative, from end to end, several times, and from it have concluded that among other things, prudence was never really part of Davis' makeup. A prudent man would've listened when one of the biggest Southern fire-eaters, Toombs, told him that firing on Fort Sumter was just plain stupid.
@althesmith Hood was trying valiantly to suck up to Davis. The man would have blown Davis and his horse, if he could have.
Hood was not addicted to pain killers as much as he was in hero worship of Davis. ANd he gladly got his men killed to please Davis. Davis wanted the soldiers to attack attack attack.
See Hood's letters to Sherman -- Hood was scared shitless when Sherman ordered the women and children out of the way - Hood was hiding behind those women and children.
I've read everything both Shelby Foote and Bruce Catton have to say on the subject, and even Foote, who was a Southerner, says that Sherman did not order mass property destruction out of hand except for factories/rail depots used by the war effort, and furthermore, during the occupation and fire of Columbia, had arsonists shot and worked with the firefighting crews. Every antebellum building you see in Savannah is a mute witness to the fact that the man wasn't a crazed arsonist.
@althesmith right. The women of Atlanta said who set fires to Atlanta -- the Confederates. Same thing with Richmond -- idiot Lee ordered fires set in Richmond as Lee ran like a pussy. Well, the fires got out of control. No one to put them out!! The mayor of Richmond - 79 and in bad health - had to ride out to the Union troops to ASK them to come into the city to help put out the fires, WHICH THEY DID!!
@DontTrustTaxCons : I think it was Davis who ordered some of the storehouses, arsenals etc. fired, not Lee. Lee was with his army at the time Richmond was burning. Lee was far from being a "pussy" but I think he was somewhat overrated as a general- certainly he did not have the large-scale strategic view of the war that Grant did.
@althesmith I heard it was Lee on his way out. But either way, it was Southern oders to burn the army stockpiles -- a reasonable order. But then there was no one to control the fires. The fires spread easily then -- all wood buidlings, no fire department, no men to orgainze to fight them.
But the point is -- the South started the fires in Richmond and Atlanta, I don't know the particulars of other places.
Sherman was fricken bad ass. What he accomplished was truly glorious. What a great America. It is sad that the south is still producing deeply misguided, biggoted people, like John Boner and Mitch "panties" McConnel, who are determined to ruin the forward progress of this great nation.
All the shit about the south just wanting slavery is bullshit. Yes slavery was a part of it but it was more of the principle of the federal gov. trying to infringe on states rights. Some of the states that were in the confederate states did not favor slavery but beleived it was the individual staes right to decide if they wanted that institution or not, which is the way it should have been. The south was merely protecting the constitution.
"States rights" right wing southern code for "We want to do whatever the hell we want, especially if it tilts the tables toward right wing christian males.
@oneputtsteven the funny thing is (not so funny really) the South DETESTED the living fuck out of States Rights. In fact,, they went to war to STOP states rights. Read their Five Ultimatums issued in March of 1861. Southern newspapers bragged about the Ultimatums calling them "THE TRUE ISSUE".
All five Ultimatums were against -- AGAINST -- states rights. States MUST accept and RESPECT slavery. No state could decide shit about slavery. At all.
@kbishop71 wrong-- the Southern leaders wanted to SPREAD slavery you stupid shit.
Guess who said so? THE SOUTH. GO read the SOuth's own Ultimatums, which Southern newspapers bragged about as "THE TRUE ISSUE". Go on dumb fuck -- see what your Southern leaders were demanding. Go on retard. See what your Southern papers were bragging about -- THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY against the will of the people. Go on you fuck tard -- go see what the SOUTH said at the time.
@DontTrustTaxCons. You are a fucking tool. Some people actually have something half-educated to say. And you call US the dumb fucks? You're a dumb fuck. You're a dumb fuck, carpet baggin', no-good yankee son of a bitch. I'll eat my good food, enjoy good weather, hot ass Southern women, and country music. Like Hank Williams Jr. said "we say grace, we say mam if you ain't into that we don't give a damn." Fuck you.
@Outerzoom Wrong you stupid shit -- I just tell you fucks about what YOUR leaders said at the time. Got that you stupid shit?
I just tell you dumb fucks what your NEWSPAPERS and LEADERS bragged about then. Got that yet you stupid shit. your leaders BRAGGED they trying to SPREAD SLAVERY according to the word of GOD. They issued Five Ultimatums that slavery must be spread -- against the will of the people -- because it was from GOD.
@civilwarcow well -- death. Death by burning to death sometimes.
Robert E Lee's father hung a slave woman, 8.5 months pregant, when she pushed a overseer down, he was whipping her, probably raping her. SHe pushed him down. Thats punishable by death. Lee was hearing the case, he could have commutted it to whipping, but he had her hung.
@civilwarcow yes, the Sherman letters are amazing. They should be taught in schools.
I came across them in my local paper, in digitized edition, from that period, and was stunned to read them. Why they aren't they refered to more?
His explanation of the start of the wars is just astonishing. And valid. Yet most of us just learn about Ft Sumter -- the South was doing far more violence and threats than that.
I am a native Georgian. The Civil War had a lasting effect on the South. It's apart of our cultural heritage and consciousness. I don't sit around and try to justify what people a century and a half ago did. It was a different world then. History is written by the victors. Slavery was an unjust and terrible thing. Just remember that the same Federal Government that freed the slaves went on to eradicate the Native Americans. Another Georgia heritage is the trail of tears. No moral high ground.
@Outerzoom you stupid fuck -- the South has written the history. FOr one thing retard, the South has written and edited almost every text book since text books started. Got that retard? For another, the South has written 20-50 times as many books about the Civil War. You fucks left out the torture, insanity, rape, -- even by men like Lee raped and tortured.
You fucks have no clue what the real history was. You would shit your dumb ass if you did
Another thing: Did the south write Sherman's speech to Atlanta?
"We don't want your Negroes, or your horses, or your lands, or any thing you have, but we do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and if it involved the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it. "
i thinke sherman not ans a hearo or villen i think of him as a person that ended the war quicker then it would of and he did not burn atlanta the rebs did he tried to pute it out it is documentid buy woman of atlanta in thar diores
@TheBoberton sorry retard. Atlanta was burned down right away, by fleeing cowards.
Just like Lee ordered Richmond burned. Lee ordered his fleeing pussy soldiers to set fire to the warehouses and railroad stock buildings. Of course the fires spread, there was no one there to put them out, but women and children, since the pussy soldiers ran away.
The mayor of Richmond, 80 years old, had to ride out to the Union troops and ASK them to come in and help put out the fires.
Oh, that's easy...he was both hero and criminal. That said, he wanted peace and gave J. Johnston's men (and the CSA Gov't.) that surrendered so lenient terms that the radical republicans pillories as...A SOUTHERN SYMPATHIZER. The last thing his men burned was a wagon of northern papers denoucing him. The men said they had more fun burning that than anything else is the south.
@hoosieryank1967 Sherman took it way too easy on Southern Pussies.
The Southern scum were great at torturing women, selling children. If men fought back against slavery, the South burned them to death. Hear that? Burned slaves to death, or had dogs eat them alive.
Sherman should have done that to the South -- given the scum pussies their own "justice". Burn to death the men who fought back, torture the women, sell the babies, and enslave the rest.
Sherman was an avenging angel who showed the southern confederacy the price of treason and rebellion...the only thing he did wrong was not hanging the ex confederate officers and politicians and treating them as the traitors that they were.
@stud915@stud915 Hitler was a coward who blamed his countries problems on Jews and killed himself. Sherman was a hero who risked his own life to end a war. He has been quoted saying that was his reason for joining in and have you not killed a fly? Ran over a pigeon or chipmunk? Put out mouse and ant poison? That is still killing, but not murder. Murder is going out for no good reason and killing people. Sherman fought to end a war. In the long run, he saved lives.
only way to do away with men like sherman is to do away with war. like it was said at the front of the video "war is cruelty, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over"
I like sherman, the more I read about him, the more I like him.
typicalviewer2 3 days ago
actually blamed for, and ridiculed, for killing people of his own kind mercilessly by sending them into battle and slaughtering the foe so... ruthlessly. While Sherman starved out the south (rich and poor), Grant murdered teenage boys and boys of all ages as they came to him during fighting. Both are respected generals and geniuses, and both deserve the same amount of respect.
beckii6vr 1 week ago in playlist Liked videos
@cujo53 No, sorry. Grant and Sherman discussed their plan of action in a hotel room, in which Sherman would take Atlanta, and then he sent for approval for his march to the sea, and Grant approved of it. Sherman and Grant became best friends, not to mention, and Grant approved of everything Sherman did - and even thanked him for it. Grant -made- Sherman lead general of the army when he became president - if Grant didn't agree with Sherman's tactics, he wouldn't have done that. And Grant is
beckii6vr 1 week ago in playlist Liked videos
@cujo53 How can you have respect for Grant, someone who adored Sherman and honored him, respected him and was grateful for what he did - but not like Sherman? That doesn't make any sense. Grant made plans with Sherman for the march to the sea, Grant approved of it, Grant over saw what he did and supported it.
beckii6vr 3 weeks ago
@beckii6vr Not going to argue with you about Grant but you are incorrect. Sherman was given command of the Union Army of Tennessee shortly after the Battle of Chattanooga. Grant took the appointment to go to Grand Army of the Potomac and fight against Lee in the early fall of 1863. Sherman was left in charge of said army with the blessings of Lincol, Grant, and the War Department. He recieved permission from the War Department and not Grant .
cujo53 1 week ago
Grant was never asked nor did he ever give permission for Sherman to carry out his "March to the Sea" and live off the fat of the Georgia land. Grant never attacked civilian target which is exactly what Sherman did. I have been to Atlanta at least 20 times in my life, I have been to Milledgeville, all along the path to Savana and lat but not least Columbia, South CArolina. What Sherman allowed his troops called "Bummers yes it where we get the name "BUM" to do is unexcuseable for anyone.
cujo53 1 week ago
For anyone that believes that Sherman is a hero, but I will agree that he did shorten the war but at what price, please come to Atlanta, Milledgeville, and all the little towns and villages eastward to Savanna and then up to Columbia, South Carolina before you try to hold this man up as a hero. See and hear for yourself from the state, federal and local historian. As long as any native people to Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee live - he will always be a criminal to us.
cujo53 1 week ago
@cujo53 Sherman would have made a great aid to any fascist or communist commander of any war.
RPenta 3 hours ago
fields, along with trains for transportation. Rarely was a civilian ever harmed, unless someone out of over 60,000 men got out of hand - in which, as said, was rare. So people should look into Sherman, and consider, his burning of materialistic objects necessary to the war a blessing. He could have slaughtered people - but he didn't. He took their supplies, and that was all.
beckii6vr 3 weeks ago
I don't understand how people insist on calling Sherman a war criminal, when he spoon-fed Georgia and South Carolina exactly what they dished out. South Carolina started a war that killed thousands of people and Georgia supported slaughtering of men for what? Secession? State's rights? What does any of it matter when the country is divided. Sherman is a war hero. Considering, if you read into what he did, rarely any civilians were actually wounded or hurt. He burnt empty homes and supply
beckii6vr 3 weeks ago
@beckii6vr You don't know what a war criminal is, that is your problem, asshole. Why do you think the homes were empty and upon what do you expect they would subsist?
RPenta 3 hours ago
Ruin and suffering are the wages of treason.
WatermelonRat 1 month ago
@WatermelonRat You're just a rat-no wonder you like Sherman.
Guess the Brits had the right to wage total war and torture against the Continentals, right?
RPenta 3 hours ago
I LOVE WTS!
Varangian1915 2 months ago
Can anyone answer this question. If the north thought slavery morally wrong how could they try to eradicate American Indians? They held no sympathy for women and children then. I guess you do not see American Indians as humans. The north did not fight for morality when they had none
TheAngelbugs 2 months ago
Finally those of you who are truly saved and are welcomed into heaven will be able to see first hand what generals and historical figures went to heaven. Hope to see you all there. Lastly the story about General Lee's father Light Horse Harry Lee. If it's true Lee's father was not an active part in raising his son. Lee was raised by his mother so he learned nothing from his father. Do not hold the the son accountable for his fathers sins. Now go out and learn true American history. Good day
TheAngelbugs 2 months ago
To keep the south from having revenue and being successful. The war was about power. Many previous slaves were not even welcome in the north after the war and had to stay on plantations and sharecrop along with many poor white families. Many of you seem to believe everything you hear in schools or whatever you read instead of think for yourselves and the only words you seem to spell correctly is profanity.
TheAngelbugs 2 months ago
Hence the riots in New York against fighting. You may approve what Sherman and Grant did but what about after the war when they went west and tortured, raped, murdered American Indians. How can you truly believe that they fought for the end of slavery to then go west and murder Indians? Hypocritical is it not? If they were true Christians who cared about slaves they could not murder another race. The march to the sea was to completely devastate the south.
TheAngelbugs 2 months ago
After reading many of these comments full of filth it is no surprise why this country is in the dumps. Many of you can't spell or read apparently. Beauregard, Lee and Stonewall never raped anyone. They were christian men who held revivals. Grant and Sherman were drunks and that is not something made up those are the facts. Even Lincoln had no intention in the beginning of the war to introduce the topic of slavery. He was against it but it was not a popular stance even among northerners.
TheAngelbugs 2 months ago
sherman was one badass motherfucker that you didnt want to mess with,he had his own private army,and was given the task of setting the south on fire and striking at the heart of the enemy!!!!!!!!
RIGOREBERTO 3 months ago
@TThorne931 It is your type of conversation that makes the people of Tennessee so proud that we are still in the Union. If you are so proud of your "Uncle Billy" then as we Tennesseans say "bless your heart" may you be sent to be with him for all eternity.
TheCr1252 4 months ago 3
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lesson learned dont fuck with the United States military
RIPxX2pac 4 months ago
Neo-Confederates whining Lincoln was "a tyrant". Why? Because he wouldn't let a bunch of rebels void a national election? And saying that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery. It had EVERYTHING to do with slavery! And saying it was mainly about "States Rights". The only "rights" the confederacy was interested in was being able to maintain and extend slavery--the "right" to keep a whole population of human beings as basically livestock. You lost because your cause was morally wrong!
frantic1971 6 months ago
@frantic1971 You are the stupidest person ive seen comment so far. The War of Northern Aggression (A.K.A " TheCivil War.") Was fouhgt because of state rights of the south. They didnt have a say in the goverment anymoe so succedded and made a treaty with the north. But the Yanks would not vacate a military fort in the south so they vacated it by force. SLavery was only a very minor part and lincoln only attepted to free the slaves in the south while in the north it he didnt.
slyfox3333 6 months ago
@slyfox3333
Only in a America is the loser allowed to rewrite the history books lol. The United States is sooooo fuckin horrible they even let ya'll fly ya'lls traitor flags. You know in the Soviet Union they would have round ya'll up killed 100,000 of ya'll and put the rest to work......like slaves and they sure as hell would not let you fly that shit. The south brought this upon themselves and they refuse to own up to it....next time win the fucking war or stfu
cius2112 6 months ago
@slyfox3333 The war of southern Aggression was fought over the Attack of a United States Fort in United States terrirtory . you have no right to order a fort vacated . Slavery was the most important thing your army of rapists and murderers were smashed down by the Rightous anger of Sherman grant mcellen and Lincoln
TThorne931 4 months ago
@TThorne931 You truly are one of the biggest idiots on youtube. In a reply to slyfox and me, you had at least four word spelled incorrectly. (Beauregard, delivering, inferiority & McClellan) Where were you educated, in the North I bet? Also Fort Sumter was within the coastal waters of South Carolina, so if South Carolina seceded, which it did, the fort was within the legal limits of ownership by South Carolina. "South Carolina, standing alone, fighting Northern aggression since 1861."
cujo53 4 months ago 4
@cujo53 No the Fort was in US soil on US land on a US Island in US waters . South Carolinia owned none of it
TThorne931 4 months ago
Even General Grant didnt free his slaves until after the war. Also if the south had won the war slavery would have evaporated because it is based off of an agricultural society with the south is no more. Oh and by the way only 10% of southerners owned slaves as most were agianst it.
slyfox3333 6 months ago
@slyfox3333 I like how the Slavers say well if we Haden't had started the War of southern Aggression to conquer the United States thing would be dun different . Who cares your people are filthy inbreed neo nazis Fuck them all to hell
TThorne931 4 months ago
@frantic1971 They don't care the south are nazis fit to be eradicated by Missiles
TThorne931 4 months ago
I think the incidence of rape during Sherman's March was much greater than generally known. After all, this was the 1860's and rape was not something you were going to tell your grandchildren about in after years--whether you were a soldier who did it or were a woman who was a victim of it. Many Union soldiers were from the Northern city slums and criminal classes.
farmerne 6 months ago
@farmerne I think your talking about the CSA there everyone knows every member of the CSA took an oath to defend Slavery and socalism . they were rapists thugs slavers and rascist they executed and raped the dead bodies of POWs of Unionist peace keepers . All union soldiers were good Christian fighting men
TThorne931 4 months ago
Shakezulah, there are acceptable and unacceptable rules of war. Sherman broke all of them which is a testament to his character that he had no feelings for the citizens who were non-combatants during this war. Just my opinion.
cujo53 7 months ago
@cujo53 “This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.” William Tecumseh Sherman
shakezulah90 7 months ago
@shakezulah90
What do you call the "Sons of Liberty" and the "Daughters of Liberty" during the Revolutionary War. Many were non-combatants and the British did not burn their cities and destroy their property and rape and plunder while the head of the army turned his head the way Sherman did in the Civil War. If that be the case, the British would have burned and stole everything in New England. As I said earlier, there are acceptable and unacceptable rules of war and Sherman broke them all!!
cujo53 7 months ago 2
@cujo53 and look what happened to the British
shakezulah90 7 months ago
I see Sherman's March like dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Certainly, it was horrible and cruel, but had his march not occurred (like had Truman not ordered the bombings) many more people, yankee and rebel, would have perished before the war would have ended. In hindsight, southerners, would you rather have had Sherman burn Georgia's crops and homes and other material possessions, or would you rather have had the Union army kill 100,000 more southern boys to end the war?
CAndrewI 8 months ago
@johnscott
While I'm a damyankee (that's one word, folks; it's not spelled with a hyphen nor is it with two words)living in Texas, I'm saying that you're the south-end of a north-bound horse. As Bugs would say, "What a maroon!"
lonewolf379th 8 months ago
You dumb Yankee Jackass. Just because he was a proclaimed christian doesn't mean anything. More proclaimed christians will be in hell than heaven. Also, to make war against civilians is a criminal act by all modern standards of warfare. Almost every professor will tell you that he would be tried as a war criminal today. If you are well read in history you KNOW that he had major mental problems and that his banking venture before the war ended up in him going bankrupt. He is playing cards in hell
cujo53 8 months ago 26
@cujo53 that was then this is today and why thank you i myself am a proud yankee. and the south was to powerful i am willing to admit that but a powerful army is usless when they are ON FIRE YEAH BITCH ONE BREGADE OF YANKS WENT THROUGH AND BURNED THAT SHIT TO THE GROUNG GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!! USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA!!!!!
johnscottnf96 8 months ago
@johnscottnf96
It is people like you that make the moderate southerners dislike the people of the north today. Anyone that takes pleasure at the death and destruction of civilian targets instead of military ones is a poor excuse for a human being. I truly feel sorry for you because of the anger that still exists in your posts. Also, you posts are not well written that probably shows your superior northern education,hahahaha!!! I have taught history for over 30 years with a B.S & M.S. Degrees.
cujo53 8 months ago 26
@cujo53 Yeah, well if you taught history for that many years, then you should be aware of the state-sponsored terror, which Southern Unionists lived with every day of their lives, starting with the secession crisis.
Uh, maybe you should take that message to your own so-called "heritage". It's a nothing but a hive of hatred. You can start right here on You-tube, with all of those tribute vids to the song " I'm A Good Old Rebel". The lyrics really DO represent people in the South...
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
@cujo53 Once you've finished with that. Take a trip over to the tribute vids to people like John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Bill Anderson, and William Quantrill. Men being proclaimed as "true Southern heroes. Which of course, is correct. Those men are indeed the embodiment of what a Southern 'gentleman' is.
Stonedead Jackson wanted the CSA to pursue a policy of taking no Union prisoners. He's a hero. Sherman is supposedly a villain for destroying property.
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage Yep, Stonedead, Bobby Lee, Jeff Davis, and the rest of the Confederate slag heap, are all Christian men, currently tending to Mr. Beelzebub's furnace.
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage You have picked the worst of the worst of Southern men, I agree they are no better than Sherman, they were all cut from the same cloth. Iam a proud Southerner and make no apology for it. If you are not Southern what Iam about to write from a speech from Edward Ward Carmack after the Civil War will not mean anything to you but for Southern born and breed people it is how beloved we think and care for our part of the United States, the South.
cujo53 6 months ago 6
@UnionStatesHeritage Here it is, "Pledge to the South" - The South is a land that has known sorrow; Its is a land that has broken the ashen crust and moistened it with its tears; A land scarred and riven by the plowshare of war and billowedwith the graves of her dead; But a land of legend, a land of song, a land of Hallowed and Heroic memories. To that land every drop of my blood, every fiber of my being, every pulsation of my heart, is consecreated forever. I was born of her womb, I was
cujo53 6 months ago 6
@UnionStatesHeritage nurtured at her breast; And when my last hour shall come, I pray God that I may be pillowed upon her bosom and rocked to sleep within her tender and encircling arms. This was a speech given by U.S. Representative Carmack from Tennessee after the Civil War on the floor of the house of rep. He was given a standing ovation from the gentlemen of the South. This speech is placed in high school and college annuals throughout the South and it does mean the world to most of us.
cujo53 6 months ago 6
@cujo53 he is from tennessee who cares what he thinks shoot his memory burn the speach
TThorne931 4 months ago
@TThorne931 I forgot to tell you that you also spell (speach) speech. What an idiot!!
cujo53 4 months ago
@TThorne931 I forgot to tell you that you also spell (speach) speech. What an idiot!!
cujo53 4 months ago
@TThorne931 I forgot to tell you that you also spell (speach) speech. What an idiot!!
cujo53 4 months ago
@TThorne931 (Speach) is also spelled correctly - speech. You are an idiot or are in the third grade.
cujo53 4 months ago 4
@cujo53 1 error in writing on the internet = third Grade . Never change commie
TThorne931 4 months ago
@TThorne931 You just don't understand. You made five major spelling errors dealing with generals and others and not just one error, they were not typing errors, in one short paragraph. That is why I said you must be in the third grade. Also grade is not capitalized. "South Carolina, standing alone, fighting Northern aggression since 1861". Funny you called me a "commie" when all my life I have taught American History and Iam an American patriot who sees things different dealing with Sherman.
cujo53 4 months ago 4
@cujo53 HAHAHAHAHAH you filthy Communist how about you go suck off Hitler you Hate America . Sherman is the patron saint of the South having saved them from evil in 64' Whoever would make you a teacher marks the inadaquacy of southenr leanring .
TThorne931 4 months ago
@TThorne931 I will not write to you any more because you are a troll. As I said earlier, you are very ignorant and must be very young. Go back to school tomorrow and take your coloring book with you. If anyone doesn't agree with you then they are a communist. You have not made one valid point but yet everyone else that disagrees with you is wrong. Also, I just love the insult which shows how much class you have to revert to using such a nasty statement but I guess Sherman would have approved!!!!
cujo53 4 months ago 4
@cujo53 filthy Communist and who is this everyone else you and the rest of your KKK friends go lynch some mroe niggers
TThorne931 4 months ago
@cujo53 Leave us alone with your bullshit. We do not care that you have a degree, we do not care if you view us as still "angry", and we do not care that civilians were killed in the Civil War. Just as southerners didn't care that border ruffians were being sent to unduly influence other states they had no business in. Simply put, you got back what you gave out. You were seen as chattel running cotton kings with undue influence spreading west. Karma raped you, not Sherman.
MaverickWhig 2 months ago
@MaverickWhig How ignorant can one person be. You must be like a lot of liberals that don't want to know the truth. Sherman was a war criminal plain and simple. Ask almost any college professor and they will tell you that. I guess you don't want to know the truth. If knowledge and truth is bullshit then you have been lied to all your life. General W. T. Sherman is in hell playing cards with Adolf Hitler and Jospeh Stalin. I have respect for General Grant but none at all for Sherman the criminal
cujo53 2 months ago
@cujo53 I read this response and I think, "It's almost like he didn't even read what I said".
I'm a liberal? Based off of what? That I disagree with you? Perhaps liberal, in the classical sense, but certainly not in the sense I know you're trying to convey.
"Sherman was a war criminal, ask any college professor"
Why? Honestly, that means nothing to me that college professors feel he was a criminal. Fuck 'em, and fuck you.
MaverickWhig 2 months ago
@cujo53 Oh, and BTW, you're the one who doesn't want to know the truth Sir. You didn't even take the time to deny or confirm my claim that the South got back what it put out. You didn't even try to tell me that I was wrong about Ruffians from the South going into newly admitted states to influence them to allow slavery to expand. The fact that you couldn't even tell me I'm wrong, that you resorted to telling me that I'm a "liberal" (OH NO!), tells me you know I'm right. You're hardly a scholar.
MaverickWhig 2 months ago
@johnscottnf96 I'm sorry but I don't put your history, ancestry and heritage down...we are all USA today. Thanks to many like my grandfathers in WWII, my dad in Vietnam and as far back as the Revolution. It's your rhetoric of BS and put downs that piss Southerners off. I'm an educator in history and science and VERY proud American that is from Georgia. It's also quite interesting to think that those same Southerners have been overwhelmingly more supportive of our troops even in Vietnam.
Kaykey30635 8 months ago
@johnscottnf96 Oh, I forgot to add that I can link my heritage back to not only fighting in the Revolution and in all wars since, but I'm also part Cherokee...you know, Native American, so my ancestors where "Southerners" before people started using that term. But we can discuss that history and how my peoples and other Natives were treated for later when you have studied the history of this great Nation better. And y'all call Us uneducated and not well-read...
Kaykey30635 8 months ago
@cujo53 “If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking” William Tecumseh Sherman
shakezulah90 7 months ago
@cujo53 Sherman had some issues but he only damaged small government buildings unlike the Souths Quantrill who raped and murdered civilians in Kansas. I love how Sherman gets all this blame from the South for destroying government buildings but Jesse James and Quantrill are considered Heros for robbing, raping and murder.
JCKustom13 7 months ago
@JCKustom13
Quantrill was an outlaw and I agree that he is no better than Sherman, only difference was that Kansas was a totally divided territory with two sides including citizens for the most part always fighting each other, thus the term "bleeding Kansas". This was going on before the civil war started check out "John Brown" and what he did in Kansas. Truly an outlaw state with both a confederate and union government with each one trying to "burn out" the other as in Lawrence, Kansas.
cujo53 7 months ago
@JCKustom13
I live only 35 miles from the Georgia border in Tennessee and go there quite often. Sherman burned about 1/3 of Atlanta to the ground including the downtown area, he pillaged, spread terror and burned Milledgeville , and burned all parts of Columbia, SC to the ground. He was a war criminal. When Sherman first got into Columbia , the first thing he did was ask when the Baptist Church was were the articles of seperation were signed and then sent his soldiers to burn it.
cujo53 7 months ago
@JCKustom13
My last post. Go visit Atlanta, Milledgeville, Columbia and see and hear for yourself. Sherman is still the most hated man in Georgia and South Carolina today. He ALLOWED unspeakable things to be done to the citizens while he turned his back. As far as small gov't building - you HAVE to be joking!!!! Also have you heard of Sherman "Bow Ties". Look it up. One thing that Iam sure of is that Sherman, Hitler, and Stalin are playing poker in Hell as we speak. Enjoy the FIRE boys!!!
cujo53 7 months ago 5
@cujo53 Do you have actual proof of this or are you just going with the myths started after the war? There was a lot of shit made up about Sherman and all of Union by the South after the war. Sherman never ordered the killing of any civilians or the burning of any Churches that is all myths the South made up because they were pissed that they lost. I can see you've been trolling on every Sherman video on youtube, posting the same comments.
JCKustom13 7 months ago
@JCKustom13
Don't believe me then but go to the State Capital of South Carolina and listen to their historian. Go to the cyclorama at Grant Park in Downtown Atlanta and watch and listen to their show, write to the city officials of MIlledgeville and SEE what they tell you. I live near these places and have been there and done that. Also is have taught U.S. History for 37 years and have a b.s. from mtsu and a masters from Trevecca. I do despise the memory of Sherman just like that of Hitler.
cujo53 7 months ago 8
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@cujo53 Ah that Southern Revisionist history, I'm from Jersey and sadly now stuck in Florida and you Southern History teachers love teaching Revisionist History teachers try to tell me Jesse James and Quantrill are heros, Sherman was bad, Lincoln was evil, Catholics are evil, the KKK is good etc. Also with all of the trolling that you do on Sherman videos I doubt you are a teacher you are probably some 16 year old who hates the North and mad the South Lost.
JCKustom13 7 months ago
@cujo53 So Lee is in hell with jackson and bouregard . Sherman was a Christian saint deliving a Swift strike against those who waged war on the People of the United States. Don't be mad of your inferority
TThorne931 4 months ago
general sherman went down to georgia took johnnys fiddle broke it over johnnys head and set it on fire!!!!!
johnscottnf96 8 months ago
@johnscottnf96
The Southerners beef with Sherman was that he not only beat them but spit on their southern pride and arrogance. Sherman showed them what the price of treason and rebellion were. The southerners should examine history and see how the losers in other nations civil wars were treated and then maybe they would stop bi****n...
MrMojoRisinII 8 months ago 2
@MrMojoRisinII finally someone that shares similar beliefs with me!!!!!!
johnscottnf96 8 months ago
@MrMojoRisinII It's not all Sherman that we blame...Lincoln, I feel had a great plan in bringing the US back together but unfortunately was unable to carry out that plan because of a crazy assassin (yes, I know JWB was southern...but individuals don't represent a population). The problem was the after-math handed down by his successor (Andrew Johnson...don't want you to have to look it up) and the carpetbaggers and other profiteers that basted in wealth at the expense of the Southerners.
Kaykey30635 8 months ago
That might be all well and fine reserved for another discussion. Sherman the topic at hand was a war criminal under almost any nations standard rules of war. Also, he was crazy and a manic depressive. Guess all those horrible things he did to CIVILIANS bothered him later in life. If he was alive today and on fire, I would not piss on him to put it out. Him and Hitler are playing cards in hell today. Enjoy the fire boys.
cujo53 8 months ago
@cujo53 ok since he was devout christian you retarded bumpkin
johnscottnf96 8 months ago
By todays standards, General Sherman would have been tried as a war criminal. Had the North not won the civil war, he would have been tried as a war criminal. It is a well known fact among educated people that have studied history that Sherman had mental problems most of his life. If there are two people hell its sherman and Hitler. Hope they enjoy playing cards and burning forever. Making women, children, and older men suffer is uncalled for in any war unless they take a active part in the war.
cujo53 8 months ago
@cujo53
He showed the southern confederacy what the price of treason and rebellion were. The arrogant southerners wanted the war, and they got in in full. The confederates sowed the winf, and reaped the whirlwind. And his name was Sherman.
Sorry no pity or compassion for traitors..
MrMojoRisinII 8 months ago
@bloodngutspatriot i meant what i wrote as a joke...and it just wasnt funny. i am really sorry. and in light of what has recently happened in the south, i am ashamed of myself. sooooo sorry! i really do love the south, and have so much respect for you guys...you built this country! it might not have been the prettiest situation but you were the workers!
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sherman is the greatest coward in the union he took southern people hostage for capured federal soilders and excuted many to there were also points were he was having trouble breaking through so he went after the civillan population and terrorized them fuck sherman hope hes rotting in hell
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blues9934 11 months ago
Sherman is perhaps the greatest man America has ever produced. I am saddened that these Johnny Reb's are trying to bring a great man down. Try to secede again and he will rise again to burn your cotton picking towns to cinders again. To see his likes again would make even the most celibate of womens thighs drip.
HatefulNed 11 months ago
@Kaeladino I understand what your saying, war is war. His war on the Peoples is.. "ok'd" by many. If we did that today, the world would have the US by it's neck and demanding justice. Guess my Q. would be, what would the N say if Lee did the same thing when he came N.? No.. sherman is a waste and a scallywag, let alone a murderer of both people and a constitution!!
statesrights01 11 months ago
@statesrights01 There is no such thing as rules of engagement when it comes to war especially in the heat of battle. War is hell and to win it you have to break the will of the people of the Country as well as its army. That was what Sherman did in his march through the South. As far as modern time goes we did it to the Germans and we dropped the A Bomb on Japan and we certainly did it in Vietnam and lately we committed a total act of aggression by going into Iraq. Sad but true war is hell.
686204 10 months ago
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What constutuion? You left the Union. You had no rights. You were traitors and you were treated as such. Sherman should have strung up all the confederate officers and politicians he came across.
He gleefully laid waste to Georgia and South Carolina and rightfully so. More Americans were murdered by Confederates at Andersonville than on the Bataan Death march.
You wanted the war, you got it. You and the rest of youa rrogant southerners just don't like the results..
MrMojoRisinII 8 months ago
@MrMojoRisinII shows how smart you are.. how in the hell do you get 'traitors"? when we left England, the USA was Traitors.. when the S. left the union.. they were NOT traitors. Not sure what 6th grade school book your getting your info from. Try reading some real history before you get on here and pop off at the mouth. You don't do your people any good by looking stupid!
statesrights01 8 months ago
@statesrights01 hey retard they were traitors to the union by threatening the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happines by enslaving people.
johnscottnf96 8 months ago
@johnscottnf96 hmm.. yeah... so.. tell me john, what was your hero's point of view on the Black man?? how about lincolns, or grants?? wow.. they all Hated the Black man with a passion. That's a fact on your "right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happines" so.. before you go running off the mouth, try reading some history. till then, don't waste my time
statesrights01 8 months ago
I hope that Sherman is reaping the full rewards of his conduct during the War of Northern Aggression in whatever place he now resides. It is true that the Confedracy produced some equally brutal leaders however to take Bloody Bill Anderson's example, his brutality stemmed from the death of his sister at the hands of the Union. Sherman's waged war against Southern women and children in the hopes of a bright political future.
03pn11 11 months ago
althesmith, I agree with you both about Thomas not getting enough credit (I don't know that he was head and shoulders above the rest, but he definitely was underrated in his time and continues to be underrated today), and about Jefferson Davis not being a very wise or prudent leader.
Statalyzer 1 year ago
Sherman's March was justified jk I dont care but come on people what did you expect a war to be? Civilized!? war was never meant to be that way and besides the south wasn't considered at the time reasonable either. One word SLAVERY!!!
bow1master 1 year ago
@bow1master
You are aware that several Northern States continued the practice of slavery long after the Confederacy was destroyed right? No? Don't worry it's not your fault, history is written by the winners and the "education" system has long been hijacked by left wing activists.
03pn11 11 months ago
@03pn11 I agree on all but one point..."education system long been hijacked by left wing activists" come on really? As an educator in the public school system I have to disagree..I mean, the worst thing that ever happened to education was/is No Child Left Behind and those unfunded mandates, didn't Bush, a right-winger, do that?
Kaykey30635 8 months ago
@Kaykey30635 Ya thats true. People who say the problem is left wing are just ignorant. But the main problem with the education system is the students themselves. There is an idea that education is "white" and many black students (at least here in the south) just skip class or act like jackasses. There is a public school near where I live where a lot of the black students, if they even go to class, sit in the back of the room and masturbate. Its a fucked up mentality thats ruining our system.
Pooternackle5 8 months ago
this ia a great american hero, "make georgia howl"- Abe Licoln to sherman
prowlifik 1 year ago
This man was evil. Even yankees gotta agree with me
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Sherman - A true american hero
Gikanks556 1 year ago
Sherman's a murderer
Sethcrawford21 1 year ago
I still think that George Thomas never got the credit due to him because being a southerner, the government distrusted him, and being a pro-Union southerner, he was villified by the south. But as a strategist, as a tactician, and as a man who never lost his head in a crisis, he stood head and shoulders above just about every other general officer, North or South, imho.
althesmith 1 year ago
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"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the exiting government, and form a new one that suits them better" ~Abraham Lincoln, floor of Congress, 1847.
Statalyzer 1 year ago
Shermans march was funny.
sleazypig 1 year ago
A far worse war criminal was Hood, who ended up getting half of his own army crippled or maimed for life for absolutely no reason other than he was mad at them.
althesmith 1 year ago
@althesmith He was ordered to attack even though he was facing 2 separate armies, both 50% bigger than his own. Total no-win situation. "Uncle Joe" was preserving the army, but he wouldn't have held Atlanta or stopped the March to the Sea, he would just just gotten himself outflanked and retreated until his back was against the sea. At least letting Hood try to cut Sherman's supply line made some sense, nobody knew Sherman could just live off the land with so many troops, which was unorthodox
Statalyzer 1 year ago
@Statalyzer : I was mainly referring to the attack at Franklin, plus the useless "Last Stand" at Nashville. He was ticked off at his officers for letting Schofield get away at Spring Hill, and took it out ultimately on his men by ordering them to attack an entrenched position with next to no artillery support and facing nearly equal numbers. What made it ludicrous was that Forrest could've flanked them out of the position, and in any case Schofield was planning to abandon that position anyhow.
althesmith 1 year ago
@Statalyzer: At Franklin Hood practically eviscerated his own army, certainly losing many of his best officers. His only defence was his opium addiction which fuzzed up his brain. Yes, the man was in constant pain- he should've resigned his commission. But he didn't. And he put himself into a position even the lowest privates in his army knew was untenable at Nashville. To quote Corporal Sam Watkins "As a General, he was a failure in every particular."
althesmith 1 year ago
@althesmith "He was ticked off at his officers for letting Schofield get away at Spring Hill" - as he should have been. Attacking Franklin frontally was certainly stupid. There wasn't really anything he could have done positively at that point is what most people forget. He could have at least just ran off and kept his men alive till the war ended. Hood's an excellent example of the Peter Principle - he was great as a bridgade & division commander, but got promoted far above his competance.
Statalyzer 1 year ago
@Statalyzer : The most dumbass move Davis made was denying promotion to Cleburne because of his views against slavery, and giving it to Hood. Cleburne knew how to save his men's lives AND how to win battles.
althesmith 1 year ago
@althesmith Cleburne still had no chance to defeat Sherman and then turn around and defeat Thomas. The war was lost by then as the most prudent thing Davis could have done would have been to surrender.
Statalyzer 1 year ago
@Statalyzer : I've read Shelby Foote's Civil War: A Narrative, from end to end, several times, and from it have concluded that among other things, prudence was never really part of Davis' makeup. A prudent man would've listened when one of the biggest Southern fire-eaters, Toombs, told him that firing on Fort Sumter was just plain stupid.
althesmith 1 year ago
@althesmith Hood was trying valiantly to suck up to Davis. The man would have blown Davis and his horse, if he could have.
Hood was not addicted to pain killers as much as he was in hero worship of Davis. ANd he gladly got his men killed to please Davis. Davis wanted the soldiers to attack attack attack.
See Hood's letters to Sherman -- Hood was scared shitless when Sherman ordered the women and children out of the way - Hood was hiding behind those women and children.
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
I've read everything both Shelby Foote and Bruce Catton have to say on the subject, and even Foote, who was a Southerner, says that Sherman did not order mass property destruction out of hand except for factories/rail depots used by the war effort, and furthermore, during the occupation and fire of Columbia, had arsonists shot and worked with the firefighting crews. Every antebellum building you see in Savannah is a mute witness to the fact that the man wasn't a crazed arsonist.
althesmith 1 year ago
@althesmith right. The women of Atlanta said who set fires to Atlanta -- the Confederates. Same thing with Richmond -- idiot Lee ordered fires set in Richmond as Lee ran like a pussy. Well, the fires got out of control. No one to put them out!! The mayor of Richmond - 79 and in bad health - had to ride out to the Union troops to ASK them to come into the city to help put out the fires, WHICH THEY DID!!
Guess who is blamed for destroying Richmond!
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
@DontTrustTaxCons : I think it was Davis who ordered some of the storehouses, arsenals etc. fired, not Lee. Lee was with his army at the time Richmond was burning. Lee was far from being a "pussy" but I think he was somewhat overrated as a general- certainly he did not have the large-scale strategic view of the war that Grant did.
althesmith 1 year ago
@althesmith I heard it was Lee on his way out. But either way, it was Southern oders to burn the army stockpiles -- a reasonable order. But then there was no one to control the fires. The fires spread easily then -- all wood buidlings, no fire department, no men to orgainze to fight them.
But the point is -- the South started the fires in Richmond and Atlanta, I don't know the particulars of other places.
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
Sherman was fricken bad ass. What he accomplished was truly glorious. What a great America. It is sad that the south is still producing deeply misguided, biggoted people, like John Boner and Mitch "panties" McConnel, who are determined to ruin the forward progress of this great nation.
surfrider001 1 year ago
All the shit about the south just wanting slavery is bullshit. Yes slavery was a part of it but it was more of the principle of the federal gov. trying to infringe on states rights. Some of the states that were in the confederate states did not favor slavery but beleived it was the individual staes right to decide if they wanted that institution or not, which is the way it should have been. The south was merely protecting the constitution.
kbishop71 1 year ago
@kbishop71
"States rights" right wing southern code for "We want to do whatever the hell we want, especially if it tilts the tables toward right wing christian males.
oneputtsteven 1 year ago
@oneputtsteven the funny thing is (not so funny really) the South DETESTED the living fuck out of States Rights. In fact,, they went to war to STOP states rights. Read their Five Ultimatums issued in March of 1861. Southern newspapers bragged about the Ultimatums calling them "THE TRUE ISSUE".
All five Ultimatums were against -- AGAINST -- states rights. States MUST accept and RESPECT slavery. No state could decide shit about slavery. At all.
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
@kbishop71 wrong-- the Southern leaders wanted to SPREAD slavery you stupid shit.
Guess who said so? THE SOUTH. GO read the SOuth's own Ultimatums, which Southern newspapers bragged about as "THE TRUE ISSUE". Go on dumb fuck -- see what your Southern leaders were demanding. Go on retard. See what your Southern papers were bragging about -- THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY against the will of the people. Go on you fuck tard -- go see what the SOUTH said at the time.
Google Southern Ultimatums.
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
This is what the song is about and just a fact america the story of us should be called called america's yankees talking total SHIT!
ChristheAussie 1 year ago
@DontTrustTaxCons. You are a fucking tool. Some people actually have something half-educated to say. And you call US the dumb fucks? You're a dumb fuck. You're a dumb fuck, carpet baggin', no-good yankee son of a bitch. I'll eat my good food, enjoy good weather, hot ass Southern women, and country music. Like Hank Williams Jr. said "we say grace, we say mam if you ain't into that we don't give a damn." Fuck you.
Outerzoom 1 year ago
@Outerzoom
Shouldn't you be at a NASCAR event, watching Fixed News and jacking off to SP?
oneputtsteven 1 year ago
@Outerzoom Wrong you stupid shit -- I just tell you fucks about what YOUR leaders said at the time. Got that you stupid shit?
I just tell you dumb fucks what your NEWSPAPERS and LEADERS bragged about then. Got that yet you stupid shit. your leaders BRAGGED they trying to SPREAD SLAVERY according to the word of GOD. They issued Five Ultimatums that slavery must be spread -- against the will of the people -- because it was from GOD.
Got that yet you stupid shit?
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
somebody gotta pick cotton black or white it is hard work
recklessrebel74 1 year ago
@recklessrebel74 sure -- pay someone enough, they will pick it.
Its call free enterprise you stupid shit.
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
@civilwarcow well -- death. Death by burning to death sometimes.
Robert E Lee's father hung a slave woman, 8.5 months pregant, when she pushed a overseer down, he was whipping her, probably raping her. SHe pushed him down. Thats punishable by death. Lee was hearing the case, he could have commutted it to whipping, but he had her hung.
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
@civilwarcow
I know what New York did.
(look up "new york lynchings")
TheBoberton 1 year ago
youre obviously way to hostile of a person to have a civil conversation with
you have been brainwashed and you refuse to admit that the north did unspeakable crimes against humanity
and the fact that you think we should have been enslaved and our leaders burned alive shows how fucking screwed up you are
you chose to believe yankee propaganda
we chose to listen to the letters and memoirs from the wittnesses of the events
TexasIndependance79 1 year ago
@civilwarcow yes, the Sherman letters are amazing. They should be taught in schools.
I came across them in my local paper, in digitized edition, from that period, and was stunned to read them. Why they aren't they refered to more?
His explanation of the start of the wars is just astonishing. And valid. Yet most of us just learn about Ft Sumter -- the South was doing far more violence and threats than that.
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
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@civilwarcow
"The constitution allows for calling out the militia to enforce the laws of the Union."
Does it allow for armies to be marched through other states, burning everything to the ground?
TheBoberton 1 year ago
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@civilwarcow
What's wrong is that the U.S. waged war to FORCE obedience.
TheBoberton 1 year ago
they deserved it fucking rebs hurra for sherman
GenGeogeSPatton 1 year ago
I am a native Georgian. The Civil War had a lasting effect on the South. It's apart of our cultural heritage and consciousness. I don't sit around and try to justify what people a century and a half ago did. It was a different world then. History is written by the victors. Slavery was an unjust and terrible thing. Just remember that the same Federal Government that freed the slaves went on to eradicate the Native Americans. Another Georgia heritage is the trail of tears. No moral high ground.
Outerzoom 1 year ago
@Outerzoom you stupid fuck -- the South has written the history. FOr one thing retard, the South has written and edited almost every text book since text books started. Got that retard? For another, the South has written 20-50 times as many books about the Civil War. You fucks left out the torture, insanity, rape, -- even by men like Lee raped and tortured.
You fucks have no clue what the real history was. You would shit your dumb ass if you did
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
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@DontTrustTaxCons
Another thing: Did the south write Sherman's speech to Atlanta?
"We don't want your Negroes, or your horses, or your lands, or any thing you have, but we do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and if it involved the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it. "
Obedience at all costs. Also known as tyranny.
TheBoberton 1 year ago
Great movie, but it should have shown what Sherman told Hood about how the war started.
Hood wrote letters to Sherman during the war -- Sherman wrote back. Everyone should read that . I'm surprised the movie didn't work it in.
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
i thinke sherman not ans a hearo or villen i think of him as a person that ended the war quicker then it would of and he did not burn atlanta the rebs did he tried to pute it out it is documentid buy woman of atlanta in thar diores
ussr19411945 1 year ago
@ussr19411945 Right -- he did not burn Atlanta, the South did. Just like Lee had Richmond burned as he ran like a pussy from it.
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
@DontTrustTaxCons
Sherman's own diary states that he ORDERED Atlanta burned down, MONTHS after he took it.
TheBoberton 1 year ago
@TheBoberton sorry retard. Atlanta was burned down right away, by fleeing cowards.
Just like Lee ordered Richmond burned. Lee ordered his fleeing pussy soldiers to set fire to the warehouses and railroad stock buildings. Of course the fires spread, there was no one there to put them out, but women and children, since the pussy soldiers ran away.
The mayor of Richmond, 80 years old, had to ride out to the Union troops and ASK them to come in and help put out the fires.
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
The point was raised the WT Sherman was either a hero or a war criminal. As usual that all depends on who win doesn't it?
Zardoz215 1 year ago
FUCK YOU HISTORY CHANNEL!!!
XxXUnleashTheBeastXx 1 year ago
Oh, that's easy...he was both hero and criminal. That said, he wanted peace and gave J. Johnston's men (and the CSA Gov't.) that surrendered so lenient terms that the radical republicans pillories as...A SOUTHERN SYMPATHIZER. The last thing his men burned was a wagon of northern papers denoucing him. The men said they had more fun burning that than anything else is the south.
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@hoosieryank1967 Sherman took it way too easy on Southern Pussies.
The Southern scum were great at torturing women, selling children. If men fought back against slavery, the South burned them to death. Hear that? Burned slaves to death, or had dogs eat them alive.
Sherman should have done that to the South -- given the scum pussies their own "justice". Burn to death the men who fought back, torture the women, sell the babies, and enslave the rest.
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
B.I.H. Sherman burn in hell.
KEITHMAN28796 1 year ago
@KEITHMAN28796 i hate sherman
swordboy80 1 year ago
@swordboy80 shermans big mistake was taking it easy on you pussies
DontTrustTaxCons 1 year ago
@KEITHMAN28796 Sherman kicked Reb traitor ass.
TheImperialistStates 10 months ago 2
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butthurt southerner alert
Redfingers 10 months ago
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Sherman was an avenging angel who showed the southern confederacy the price of treason and rebellion...the only thing he did wrong was not hanging the ex confederate officers and politicians and treating them as the traitors that they were.
MrMojoRisinII 8 months ago
Great general, no matter what anyone says.
TheImperialistStates 1 year ago
@TheImperialistStates yeah his strategy was to kill every one and everything
ZackAttack261 1 year ago
@ZackAttack261 yup, god bless him
TheImperialistStates 1 year ago
@TheImperialistStates wow
ZackAttack261 1 year ago
@ZackAttack261 Yup =)
TheImperialistStates 1 year ago
sherman is the devil
ZackAttack261 1 year ago
@ZackAttack261 bigtime I agree with you.
KEITHMAN28796 1 year ago
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@stud915 @stud915 Hitler was a coward who blamed his countries problems on Jews and killed himself. Sherman was a hero who risked his own life to end a war. He has been quoted saying that was his reason for joining in and have you not killed a fly? Ran over a pigeon or chipmunk? Put out mouse and ant poison? That is still killing, but not murder. Murder is going out for no good reason and killing people. Sherman fought to end a war. In the long run, he saved lives.
pementaloaf 1 year ago
Say what you will, but that crazy motherfucker knew how to win a war.
k6k6k6Darkie 1 year ago
only way to do away with men like sherman is to do away with war. like it was said at the front of the video "war is cruelty, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over"
BlueDabber 1 year ago
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BlueDabber 1 year ago
Sherman's boys really knew how to throw a barbecue!
tdirtyatl 1 year ago 2
this made me chuckle a little bit hehe
Colin69972 1 year ago