Sherman's March premieres on The History Channel, April 22

[drmcify]

How many confederates died fighting for that butcher Lee ?.As a confederate you where more likely to die serving under lee than you where fighting against William Tecumseh Sherman. One more thang fer all you good ole boys ,What was Andersonville all about???It looked like you all taught adolph H. a thang ur two bout prisner care.

[richardruhe]

sick; the 'story of us' is a lie. to say this is the model for future war...well, might be true in light of the recent atrocities-but, absolutely immoral murderer. Coward.

[windridr66]

The war wasn't about the abolishment of slavery like most people would like to believe but about a State's right to secede for protection against Washington tyranny, which is exactly what took place.

[bl91978]

@windridr66 Just so happens that the justification used to describe the "tyranny" of the the federal government was that Abraham Lincoln was going to take office? It's this sort of revisionist ignorance that makes the "southerner hick" American stereotype perpetuate. Do you brew your own in a homemade still in the backwoods away from "revenuers' " prying eyes too?

[windridr66]

@bl91978 I'm not going to waste my time responding to such drivel.

[33MarciS]

@windridr66 Thank God for people that have sense, like you. It was for states' rights and they used slavery as an excuse to commit war crimes. Does anyone of you know that Grant's wife had slaves until after the Civil War? And for those of you who are proud to be Sherman's descendant, I hope you didn't inherit his insanity. That's not a blind statement. He was mentally unstable. You can find that out if you do some research.

[Mahbu]

@33MarciS States rights to do what? Maintain and protect the institution of slavery. It was never about freeing slaves, you are right there, but it had everything to do with slavery. Politically, economically, morally. The seeds of conflict were in place long before secession or Abraham Lincoln. Look up Bleeding Kansas. Dredd Scott. John Brown. The abolitionist movement was coming into full swing and the South was terrified of it. (Continue to next comment)

[Mahbu]

@33MarciS

The south was scared that it'd lose all its power which it had enjoyed in the past if no new slave states were allowed into the Union. They were also economically threatened by the industry of the North which made the North very powerful. Also, the South wanted all its laws regarding slavery to come with them whenever they visited the North which the North resented and refused. So, yeah. Slavery is at the heart of the issue. The South just jumped the gun and foolishly fired first.

[vetalltheway]

Sherman was a malcontent who only understood one thing in war, and that was total obliteration of everything in his path. Even slaves were dispensed of if it served his purpose of total war.

[Newellx66]

I hate Sherman with every atom of my body. The Northern army were savages.

[razorslice17]

You must not know what you're talking about. People think Sherman marched forward and killed everyone in his path. The only people Sherman fought on his way were the small pathetic armies that were there to try to stop him from getting to the sea. He destroyed railroads, livestock, things like that. The reason the Civil War was so fucking destructive was because there WEREN'T more people like Sherman! If the other northern generals would've fought like him, the war would've been over far sooner

[Newellx66]

@razorslice17 There are certain things you don't do in war, especially if you fighting to try and keep a country together. When in war is it ever okay to rape and kill civilians at random? It was a bitch move in other words.

[razorslice17]

Again, if you think he raped and killed civilians at random you are vastly misinformed. The loss of civilian life resulting from General Sherman's army was very very small (the ones that were killed were the people that came out with their rifles to try to stop him). Sherman's tactics were limited to the destruction of property. Total war, the destruction of things with economic value to the opposing force.

[33MarciS]

@razorslice17 History was re-written by the victors, the North. Sherman allowed his men to rape and kill innocent women and children among other barbaric acts. Sherman called for the extermination of Jewish people, American Indians and certainly had no love for blacks. Some of you need to delve a little deeper into actual historical accounts before you believe the lies the Progressives have propagated.

[Mahbu]

@33MarciS

No. Really, history is being rewritten by denialists and Lost Cause idiots like yourself who cling to a bitterness that isn't even your own. The only "actual" history you refer to is hate mongering ignorance perpetuated by fools and disenfranchised dreamers who cling to the old "glory" of the Confederacy ignoring that it was a corrupt, vile thing that hid behind 'southern culture'. Or you could just be a troll.

[Mahbu]

@Newellx66

It's never okay. Which is good, because Sherman didn't do that. People just claim he did because they hate him but have no evidence what so ever. Hell, when Columbia burned on accident, not a single life was lost.

Southerners need to get over it.

[westchesterny]

@Mahbu  Get over what? Never being free? Having freedoms? Or what? At this point, Union government owns half the property, and all govs degenerated into for profit enterprises, crime & violence are everywhere, transience, lack of societal historical narrative, cohesion, respect, manners, a dumbed down population, and on and on. How can you "get over" something that's going on still? Federalization is constant, now borderless new "country" what do you even live in, lol

[Mahbu]

@westchesterny

I like how you make dots up and connect them. That's really cool. But all that shit you listed? Has nothing to do with the Union winning the war and everything to do with current generations.

Never you mind that the South at the time of the war was morally bankrupt and every bit as corrupt as it claimed the opposition was.

So. Yeah. Get over it. The grand delusion this southern minority has needs to end so that we can try and work toward improving the country.

[westchesterny]

@Mahbu NO, the south was not morally bankrupt then, lol. The list of things above have ALL BEEN CREATED by the Northern win of the war. This is what happens when you chose a Commercial Elite who cares only for international money. Keep it small, grow it local, return to the Jeffersonian ideal, and plagues will leave you. Dixie and its politicals, religion, and folkways COUDL NOT have evolved the Yankee society. These are results of yr open border, Statist/ Centrist /neo-feudal ways

[Mahbu]

@westchesterny

News flash, you naive twit, that shit you just mentioned? Doesn't work. Jeffersonian ideals? We tried that shit, it didn't work. It can't work. Just like communism. Small government doesn't work. It's about as idealistic as the GOP makes the left look like. Which is to say extremely and absurdly.

Also, yes, the south was morally bankrupt and in a state of delusion that multiplied tenfold after the war because people were extremely bitter about losing and refused to make peace.

[drmcify]

@Newellx66 Hey A hole what about ANDERSONVILLE ????

WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN The greatest military mind in history!!

Boy you just got yer white ass kicked Thats all its about.And if you don't behave we might have to march on back down and kick it again.

[Mahbu]

@drmcify

Indeed, it is a very fair argument to suggest that people hate Sherman because he HUMILIATED the South. At least in losing a battle in conventional war, like at Gettysburg, the South could claim some kind of honor or pride (for what it's worth, take that as you will) but Sherman just stomped a mudhole in them good ole boys.

[hannibalbrown]

I ain't a yankee, I ain't a rebel, I am an American and I am dam proud of it. I don't care whether my ancestor's won or lost. I am an American and i will never hold a grudge about the past, and no one should.

[hurtfulcookie]

guys what dose it mattrer were one country

[nalgaface123456789]

Sheman RULES

and to you ignorant inbreds who hate him becuase he killed your inbred great great grandfather

Go back to fucking your cousin!!

[Illusenfan35]

NEVER call my fellow Southerns inbreds because of their opinion and I won't call your fellow Northerns, Westerners, or wherever you come from ignorant jackass Yanks. Just because someone contradicts you doesn't mean that they don't have a right to say it. I personally admire Sherman greatly and I know not everyone agrees with me and I am okay with that.

[nalgaface123456789]

i never called southerners inbreds

I only named inbreds which wasnt followed by southerners

and as for the contradicting views i completely understand it

[Luminahawke]

Actually Sherman killed less CSA soldiers than most Generals. During his March alone the only soldiers his army engaged were old men and boys who were "forced" into the army as a last ditch effort to stop Sherman.

[maarnold1775]

@nalgaface123456789

We are. My cousin turns out to be your momma

[nalgaface123456789]

LOL

[NW1ABLitz]

One day I hope I have the honor to piss all over his worthless grave, and maybe even take a sh*t on it too...

[amazindan]

Relax Johnny Reb! YOU LOST!!!!!

[amazindan]

Ya and get your asses kicked again?! lol

[ToddGustafson]

I was born a Yankee don't agree with race with mixing like most Yanks do.I don't agree with slavery we should send the blacks back to Africa.

[nalgaface123456789]

than you sir dont classify as a yankee

[LSDetroit]

The problem with the South is that it is full of White Trash, savages who believe in Slavery, brutality and marrying their cousins.

They have always been an embarrassment to other white people in this country, who do not subscribe to their barbarism.

[kentamitchell]

Like somebody from *Detroit* has *any* business talking about barbarism? Detroit, murder capital of America!

[theradical1merchant]

One word BULLSHIT

[gubyguy]

is the suckiestmovie ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[VueTim92]

this is a great doc video. rly show u the cruelty of war.

[Mythago]

Bill Oberst, Jr., does an extraordinary job playing Sherman!

[Oldboy42]

I am a direct descendant of Gen. Sherman. very proud of him.

[kentamitchell]

As you have EVERY reason to be! Did you have the chance to attend the reenactment of his "War is hell" speech in Columbus in 2005?

[pementaloaf]

@Oldboy42 Really? So am I! Jeez I'm glad so many people are defending him...

[Oldboy42]

@pementaloaf

Very cool! then we must be related! Where from?

[Mahbu]

@pementaloaf Defending who? Sherman? He shouldn't have to be defended.

Sherman did nothing wrong. Of course, these Lost Cause buffoons want to rewrite history to cover their own asses and protect their pathetic "pride". They're mad because Sherman humiliated them and broke their spirit which was his intended goal fromt eh start. AND he did it with VERY LITTLE Civilian casualties or instances of rape.

[agricola]

the confederacy was an illigitmate country, the union needed to be restored and slavery banished from the north american continent.

[Sayeret1]

Yep war is hell, but evil bastards like Sherman got their jollies from authorising and condoning the terrorising,slaughter, looting and raping of CIVILIANS. I hope he is burning in the same kind of hell he created.

[Luigi84289]

no more illigitimate when the us broke away from britain. Sherman was a butcher and owned slaves. He should have been hanged for what he did.

[Luigi84289]

previous comment directed at aricola.

[BeanWhipper]

if u saw the show then u know how cruel he was

[PHILLYDEMOCRAT]

sherman saved america

[MetalliVolvo]

Exactly WHO did he save? Think about that for a while.

[ColonelCuster]

Looking forward to this program!

[BSkull24]

lol i know what happend, well i do live near one of the battle sites

BSK