>"I find the people of Memphis much more resigned and less presumptuous at first. Your (Grant's) orders about property and mine about 'niggers' make them feel that they can be hurt, and they are about as sensitive about their property as Yankees. I believe in universal confiscation and colonization. Some Union people have been expelled from Raleigh. I have taken some of the richest Rebels and will compel them to buy and pay for all of the land, horses, cattle, and effects, as well as damages, and let the Union owner deed his property to one or more of them. This they don't like at all."
Reminder that Jefferson Davis wanted to use the Southwest for nigger breeding ranches.
>>18221411>The people of Memphis continued to detest the Yankee occupier and made no attempts to hide that feeling. Especially defiant were the ladies. One journalist, using a delicate euphemism, said "Applying a misapplied breadth of maternal affection, the ladies of Memphis would parade through the streets in the evening in the fleeciest and scantiest of magnificence, a little Negro girl by their side, usually carrying a parasol or such other minor impedimentia."
>>18221986why are women like this?
Sherman was a war criminal who destroyed the property of peaceful civilians and left thousands with no food and winter approaching.
>>18221411>Sherman's views on Indian matters were often strongly expressed. Following the 1866 Fetterman Massacre, in which 81 U.S. soldiers were ambushed and killed by Native American warriors, Sherman telegraphed Grant that "we must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children".
>Following the union victory at Vicksburg, Sherman invited his wife and children to visit the union encampment.> When the family boarded a boat to take them back home, the General went along to escort them home. Unfortunately his only son became ill, and was taken ashore at Memphis where he died of typhoid.
>>18222015>peacefulyou keep using that word. i do not think it means what you think it means.avi
>>18222022Damn, dangerous world back then.You can just die by going to random places and eating random food
>>18222042Grant got sick a number of times during the war. Sanitation was poor back then and intestinal flu was common.
