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

SHERMAN'S MARCH, premiering Sunday, April 22 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on The History Channel®. www.history.com.

"War is cruelty. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."- General William Tecumseh Sherman

Known affectionately as "Uncle Billy" by Union soldiers, but reviled in the South as a brutal war criminal, General William Tecumseh Sherman is one of the truly enigmatic and complex figures in the American pantheon. His legacy, built during a five-week campaign of terror and destruction, ranks as one of the most daring endeavors in U.S. military history. Controversial to this day, his epic story is told in SHERMAN'S MARCH, premiering Sunday, April 22 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on The History Channel®. www.history.com.

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[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!!

[Oldboy42]

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

[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.

[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

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 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]

@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.

[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.

[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]

@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.

[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]

@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.