William Tecumseh Sherman

A little something I put together for General W. T. Sherman. Sorry if you don't think the music fits, I have nothing against the man.

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[lewkev]

"i intend to make Georgia howl"

[mkfletch54]

Shooting a teller, blowing up a parking lot, selling children into slavery...this is total nonsense. This sounds more like your beloved Sherman. I won't even comment on the rest of the post because it goes from idiotic, to ridiculous, to uneducated. Sherman's famous march to the sea was nothing more than a campaign of plunder. He had no honor or dignity.  He is not revered as a hero by Civil War scholars, and he is generally thought of with disdain. Post intelligent thoughts in the future.

[Erok48]

Sherman was the only union general who knew how to win the war, and that was by completely destroying the south's ability to fight and crushing their fighting will

"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking."

[zaku1868]

"My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us."

-Gen. W.T. Sherman

[MemphisSpanker]

@FilmCriticOne The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States … formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities. – John C. Calhoun

[MemphisSpanker]

@FilmCriticOne "If [the Declaration of Independence] justifies the secession from the British empire of 3,000,000 of colonists in 1776, we do not see why it would not justify the secession of 5,000,000 of Southrons from the Federal Union in 1861". – New York Tribune, December 17, 1860

[MemphisSpanker]

@lewkev "The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor have they been reduced to the condition of one and the same people. If one of the States chose to withdraw its name from the contract, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so' … – Alex de Tocqueville, Democracy In America

[MemphisSpanker]

“[Our situation] illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.”

-Jefferson Davis

"The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back." – H.L. Mencken

[MemphisSpanker]

Although my sympathies are with the CSA, I have to admit Sherman was, arguably, the best general the Union had. in the late ante bellum period, he and Robert E Lee recognized better than the politicians on either side just what the war would cost both sides.

[714jada]

let's have a war today and see what happen's yankee scum!!!

[714jada]

i would piss and spit on Sherman's grave fuck him!!!!

[DravenWolfe]

@toefur69 Don't forget tyrants who kept fellow humanbeings in bondage, feeding off of the backs of their sufferage, but the Union set them straight... heh heh.