Re: Will Richmond burn again?
Posted by:
Sherman, America's Hero
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Date: January 13, 2020 11:22AM
Trfed Wrote:
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> Pretend Democrat Wrote:
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> > So you think the Confederates would burn their
> own
> > City down again? Talk about anti-climatic..
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> The answer to that is YES.
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> We another Sherman march to the Sea to cleanse the
> south of all the inbred losers.
Sherman was awesome. Kicked loser asses back to the stone ages.
“We have consumed the corn and fodder in the region of country thirty miles on either side of a line from Atlanta to Savannah, as also the sweet potatoes, cattle, hogs, sheep and poultry, and have carried away more than ten thousand horses and mules, as well as a countless number of their slaves. I estimate the damage done to the state of Georgia and its military resources at one hundred millions of dollars; at least twenty millions of which have injured to our advantage, the remainder is simple waste and destruction”(36). In our current age of environmental awareness and strive for sustainability, referring to Sherman’s march as “simple waste and destruction” is an extreme understatement. In official returns, United States officers accounted for 13,000 heads of cattle, 9,500,000 pounds of corn and 10,500,000 pounds of fodder seized by troops, but they fail to account for horses, mules, hogs, sheep and poultry killed, or the rice, sweet potatoes, syrup, peas and vegetables taken to satisfy the wasteful appetite of Sherman’s troops (25).