Rethinking Sherman's March: A Kindler, Gentler Total War?

[Eddie Teach]

Should've split his column further and made a March to the Rio Grande as well.  Texas goofs.

That would have been as self-defeating as Napoleon marching to Moscow. Why bother with that wasteland?

[Razgovory]

Thank you for mentioning that in fairness.  derdixie.

I'm a member of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.

I just think some of you let your hatred of all things Southern cloud your judgment sometimes.  Yes, we Yankees were the good guys and the Rebels were the bad guys.  But not everyone on the Southern side was evil.

By all means, why don't we talk about how bad Americans were in Vietnam and Korea and the positives of the N. Vietnamese and N. Koreans.

[derspiess]

Screw that.

[Viking]

Thank you for mentioning that in fairness.  derdixie.

I'm a member of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.

I just think some of you let your hatred of all things Southern cloud your judgment sometimes.  Yes, we Yankees were the good guys and the Rebels were the bad guys.  But not everyone on the Southern side was evil.

And Hitler was kind to his dog. So what.

[Razgovory]

Screw that.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[derspiess]

Well, there's kind of a difference, Raz.  The Civil War was a civil war.  The other two weren't.

[garbon]

Well, there's kind of a difference, Raz.  The Civil War was a civil war.  The other two weren't.

Indeed. Needed more Southern purges.

[dps]

I think we can all agree that, in the end, the main criticism that can be levelled at the March to the Sea was that Sherman didn't kill enough southerners.

Not necessarily during actual campaigning, but the Union was too kind to the rebels after the war.  There should have been several hundred thousand hung as traitors.

[DGuller]

I think we can all agree that, in the end, the main criticism that can be levelled at the March to the Sea was that Sherman didn't kill enough southerners.

Not necessarily during actual campaigning, but the Union was too kind to the rebels after the war.  There should have been several hundred thousand hung as traitors.

Yeah, it was definitely a tragic mistake that we're still paying for to this day.

[Razgovory]

Well, there's kind of a difference, Raz.  The Civil War was a civil war.  The other two weren't.

Well, they all could be a considered civil wars.  The difference I suspect is that you find one confederates more sympathetic then the Viet Cong.

[citizen k]

Yeah, it was definitely a tragic mistake that we're still paying for to this day.

We should have nuked the USSR in '45. 

[Caliga]

Yeah, it was definitely a tragic mistake that we're still paying for to this day.

[jimmy olsen]

Curtis LeMay as he ordered the firebombing of Japanese cities. History has deemed them heroes

Ide maybe

[jimmy olsen]

I think we can all agree that, in the end, the main criticism that can be levelled at the March to the Sea was that Sherman didn't kill enough southerners.

Not necessarily during actual campaigning, but the Union was too kind to the rebels after the war.  There should have been several hundred thousand hung as traitors.

I can see the argument for former federal officials who served in the Confederate congress/cabinet/etc, and federal officers who served in the Confederate Armed Forces, but this is just genocidal crazy talk.

[DGuller]

Yeah, it was definitely a tragic mistake that we're still paying for to this day.

I was commenting on the "too nice" part, letting the South install Jim Crow laws and such.  I didn't mean to comment on the optimal number of Southerners needed to be hanged to achieve that.