Oh, every day is Sherman Day? Let me go fetch his high priest, the Master of Shermania and Keeper of the all important Flame...
@unionblue .
This thread illustrates why I often pair Sherman and Forrest. They are imperfect, greatly flawed, highly capable heroes who deserve both the accolades and the criticism. One can haul out a list of crimes they both committed and make a perfect case for them both being the devil...and do the same in reverse to prove they are both angels.
Forrest was a die-hard Southern nationalist. Sherman was a die-hard Unionist. If the CSA had established itself, would Forrest have been the one implementing their Indian policy? Perhaps - and it would have been aimed for the same results. No matter which way it went, the USA and the CSA were going to expand - and the tribes were going to be carried out of the bar room brawl on a stretcher to the nearest reservation. There was no getting out of the path of either entity. To put that matter in the tiniest of tiny nutshells - greed ruled the day!