Do southerners comprehend how lucky they are that Sherman exclusively destroyed buildings, farms, and infrastructure while intentionally giving civilians ample time to evacuate and refused to kill non combatants? In virtually every other war in human history, armies would rape and kill the population when taking enemy territory. Sherman was incredibly merciful in his refusal to kill civilians.
>>18720707His great-granddaughter married a black man, I think he would be proud
>>18720707the American civil war is one of the few notable civil wars that was (relatively) restrained
>>18720707its a civil war retard
>>18720779It's War of Northern Aggressionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_War_of_1862
>>18720707Sherman didn't go far enough.>t. Southerner
>>18720930Agreed, he should have kept going into the Atlantic and never come back up.
50,000 civilians died as a result of the intentional targeting of noncombatants. Sure, the Yankees actually did help send some food South to prevent further starvation that their bummers caused, but I think it would've been better if they didn't invade white men's land for the "crime" of wanting to govern themselves in the first place. Recall Bismark's disgust when Sheridan suggested to him that Germany should deal with the French in the same way he dealt with his own countrymen -- this was *not* the normal way you dealt with fellow white men in the 19th century.
>>18720717>do southerners comprehend how lucky they are
>>18721242Why did English soldiers rape Spanish girls and women when it was the French who caused their casualties?After the capture of the city, British troops became drunk on stocks of captured alcohol and began rampaging through the city. During the sack of Badajoz, numerous homes were broken into, private property was vandalized or stolen, civilians of all ages and backgrounds raped and many British officers trying to bring to order were shot by the men.[19][5] Captain Robert Blakeney wrote:>The infuriated soldiery resembled rather a pack of hell hounds vomited up from infernal regions for the extirpation of mankind than what they were but twelve short hours previously – a well-organised, brave, disciplined and obedient British Army, and burning only with impatience for what is called glory.[20]Despite this, some historians have defended the actions of the British soldiers by arguing that the aftermath could not have been avoided considering the ferocity of the battle. Ian Fletcher argues:>Let us not forget that hundreds of British troops were killed and maimed by the fury of the respective assaults, during which men saw their comrades and brothers slaughtered before their very eyes. Should we really condemn them for feeling some degree of bitterness, for wanting to vent their anger upon somebody? The storming of a fortress is not the same as a battle where men expect casualties to occur. But when a force was asked to storm a fortress when practicable breaches had been formed, such casualties would have been deemed unnecessary. Given the enormity of the task facing the stormers in the Peninsula, I for one begrudge them none of their feelings of anger and desire for revenge.[21]On the other hand, Myatt writes:
>>18721242>>18722135On the other hand, Myatt writes:>Presumably one can return to the laws of war which, imprecise though they were, did at least suggest propriety of a surrender when a practicable breach had been made, to which Phillipon might very justifiably have retorted that practicable was not a recognisable description of breaches on which two of the best divisions in the British Army had failed to make any impressions, even though the extent of their effort can be measured by their losses.[22]After fifteen to eighteen hours Wellington finally issued an order that the sack of Badajoz should cease and ordered detachments to restore order beginning at 5 a.m. the next day.[23] However, it took another 72 hours before military order was completely restored in the ranks.[24] Many British soldiers were flogged as punishment and a gallows was erected, though no one was hanged.[25]Weren't Spanish civilians also fighting the French and getting raped by the French?Why did British soldiers rape female Spaniards then?https://www.face.book.com/groups/lancashireinfantrymuseum/posts/10162426363614910/https://roguenation.org/7-april-2/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDgxGWalp00https://www.britannica.com/event/Siege-of-Badajoz-1812https://www.thenapoleonicwars.net/copy-of-capture-of-ciudad-rodrigohttps://www.deseret.com/2015/4/8/20562273/this-week-in-history-british-brutality-followed-the-fall-of-badajoz/https://academic.oup.com/histres/article/92/255/160/5603512https://www.british-cemetery-elvas.org/en/battles-e-regiments/badajozhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2281.12252
Sherman had a talent for turning an afternoon stroll into an economic crisis
>>18720707If you need to go hyper war crime mode to win a war against a bunch of shoeless farmers with smoothbore muskets you’re just shit at fighting
