Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Gen. Sherman's 'Disproportionate Response'

History
Reviled in the South to this day as a terrorist, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman decided that the only way to end the protracted armed conflict of the American Civil War and terminate the rebellious, racist, slave-regime in the south was to bring the war home to the civilian population of the Confederacy.

(Snip) Recognizing that it was not in their economic interest to continue the fight, civilian political support for the Confederacy began a precipitous collapse...

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