On this day 157 years ago, William T. Sherman presented Savannah, GA to Lincoln...

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William T. Sherman

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Ironically, Sherman was the first president of LSU (known as Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy at the time).

I maintain that Sherman spared savannah bc he was a mason.

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Confederate sympathizers

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I sympathize for both the confederate and Yankees

No war highlights the greedy fat politician pigs sending young men to slaughter more than the civil war

The soldiers on both sides had zero dog in the fight, they were fighting a rich elite mans war

Sherman started what Joe Burrow continued in Georgia.Burn them all....especially Georgia's defense!!!

All joking aside, once Grant unleashed Sherman into Georgia and when the Confederacy saw how effective Sherman was and how relatively easily he does his invasion/ hell raising tour it should have been the ultimate signal to Lee and Davis that all was lost. But if you want sheer brutality and destruction, it is Sherman & Co. after Savannah in South Carolina. The Union Army was going to make that state pay for being the place where the war started.

By any modern definition, a war criminal.

Sherman did not die a slow agonizing death caused by arse cancer, but he damn well should have.

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Statements like these show you have absolutely zero comprehension of history or social sciences. In the 1860's, your average Southerner would have been hundreds of miles away from the nearest federal building or installation. The United States as a centralized entity didn't exist in the minds of 99% of the population. You were a Virginian, a South Carolinian, a Georgian. So when a federal army made up of soldiers from places you've never heard of or been to descends on your homeland, is your average Southerner supposed to fight with the foreign hordes or defend his own people?

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Bless your heart. You're believer of the "war of northern aggression" mindset aren't you?

People in the South love to throw up the states rights arguments and how evil the North was, but that could not be further from the truth. After the Compromise of 1850, one could argue the South was doing exactly what they claimed the North was doing by "infringing on our rights". Fugitive Slave Laws allowed Southern slave catchers to enter Northern states and seize AA (whether they were escaped or not) and bring them back South. Imagine if the North had done this? Yall on this board would flip your shite if that happened today.

The Southern belief in Nullification was another issue. "Oh we don't like that law so we just wont follow it, STATE LAW RULZ"

The South had no issue with the Federal govt. as long as they did exactly what they wanted. When they lost the fight on Popular Sovereignty and it was clear they would lose the Senate they took their ball and went home.

One thing that always gets overlooked here is 1. South fired first 2. Lincoln and the republicans did not want to end slavery, only stop its spread. They went out of their way to make this clear to the South. Southern planter class and Southern propaganda swayed everyone else to thinking a war was a good idea.

To summarize, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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If you have a problem with what Sherman did to the Deep South while, at the same time, make apologies for what Curtis LeMay and Carl Spaatz did to Axis cities in the Second World War, then you are a hypocrite. And a big one at that. Because what U.S. bombers did to the Germans and the Japanese is far worse than what Sherman did to Confederate cities.

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it's pointless to try to bring logic into these civil war threads.