What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman's Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta

I get it. Two wrongs make a right.


Just because Halleck said it doesn't make it true.

It is necessary for the objective historian to evaluate the validity of remarks by war participants. Cutting-and-pasting original source material is valueless w/o such discernment.

When Halleck wrote the above obscenity Jackson, Mississippi was in ashes as was much of central Louisiana because of fires deliberately set by Yankee soldiers. Admittedly, anyone can go to the OR and find false denials of Yankee culpability, but they were largely self serving. Sherman and his pyromanic subordinate, A. J. Smith, were responsible. It would be necessary to disregard objectivity or be as gullible as the gate keepers of Troy to believe otherwise.
Clearly overlooking the destruction set by Confederates under orders not to leave anything of use to the Yankees...
 
Please examine post number 3 on the December 23, 2012 thread "What the Yankees Did to Us"

It was a two word post by a former moderator using the pseudonym "Ole" and is provided below. It was popularly "liked" and never criticized by a moderator.

Calling "crock."


As moderator:
As you wish.

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