>"And further, let it be known that if a farmer wishes to burn his house, his cotton, his family, and himself, he may do so. But not his corn. We want that.">-- Letter to Gen. Stephen Hurlbut, Corinth, Mississippi June 17, 1862
>>18550447Sherman was a war criminal and literal psychopath who boasted about destroying the property of peaceful civilians.
>>18550461If he was playing his part in the Civil War with kiddie gloves on the Union would never have won. He was a hero who did more to end slavery in America than any abolitionist could.
>>18550461How is destroying items used by the military make someone a war criminal?I mean he was during the Indian Wars (which was also a good thing) but crying about farms getting burned during the Civil War isn't a war crime.>"Dear General Sheridan, I will back you with my whole authority. I will say nothing and do nothing to restrain our troops from doing what they deem proper on the spot and will allow no mere vage general charges of cruelty and inhumanity to tie their hands, but will use all the powers confided to me to the end that these Indians, the enemy of our race and our civilization, shall not again be able to carry out their barbarous warfare."
>>18550461You lost, Cletus.
>>18550461>slaveholders>peaceful
>>18550447based
>>18550461His treatment of the south was tame. Butthurt southerners make it out like he did a genocide there when all he did was smash some property and infrastructure. See his actions against Indians if you want to actually see him at his worst.
