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Sherman, Savannah and a 'Shocking Bad Hat'

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Army.mil - On December 7, 1864, Major General William T. Sherman's Union army closed on Savannah as they concluded their March to the Sea. They faced a difficult job taking the city by assault, and with the army stopped by the Savannah defenses, supplies stopped coming in. It was imperative that a supply line be opened to a fleet waiting to provide for Sherman's army. The nearest avenue to those ships was the Ogeechee River south of Savannah, and the last obstacle was Fort McAllister, a large, earthen fort guarding the river entrance...
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  • Always good to see Uncle Billy !

  • Seriously dude. You obviously haven't been studying your Confederate generals that well. Jubal Early burned and pillaged Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Quantrill, Mosby, and Morgan all led raids against the North aswell. So to call Sherman a coward would be to call Early, Quantrill, Mosby, and Morgan cowards aswell.

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  • @NAVYMU1RET Simply put; had General Sherman's action taken place in modern times he would have been indited and convicted as an international war criminal.

  • South led ruthless raids several times into the north & attacked civilians. Some like to lie about the civil war. The civil war had one cause. One group of Americans wanted to end slavery. One group were willing to tear apart our nation over the "right" to hold humans as beasts of burden. The war needed to end & the south refused even though they were beaten. Sherman cut them in half & severed supply lines. He ended the slaughter that the south wanted to continue. Haters 145 years later.

  • Gen. Sherman took the war to the Rebels and gave them exactly what they had dished out to others in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi.

    And guess what ... the Rebels didn't like it and lost their taste for war along with their capacity for it. That earned him the hatred from such Rebels as didn't like being humiliated. Tough, but no cause for resentment.

  • death to sherman. he killed women and children and burned southern land. now i know the kkk has done worse,but war causes extreme measures, is anyone perfect? or is hate perfect? i got southern pride till the die!! but we all come from crazy times!!!! live and let live until they "tread on me"

  • Sherman said he would make Georgia howl and he did. He hated war he said war is hell and knew that he must take the war to the civilian backers of the war in order to break the confederate armies.The South was correct on states rights, the North correct on abolition-no man has the right to own another. The entire nation was scourged by the war for profiting and turning a blind eye to the horrors of slavery.Let us learn. Stop abortion before the LORD requires this blood of us. REPENT!

  • brave man...sherman.

  • Brave man? Please, how about you whip a free man instead of a slave, trash.

  • HEY...It takes a brave man to kill civilains...

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