W. Richardson
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- Mt. Gilead, North Carolina
Wonderful presentation on Sherman's March and was it a crime.
Respectfully,
William
Respectfully,
William
William, who is the speaker?
Thanks.
This question is based on a flawed premise.
War crimes exist when two countries go to war with each other. This was putting down a rebellion. Ergo, the concept of war crimes does not apply.
Said with his best lawyer suit on.
Well, I do know that if I were Sherman I would not want to be tried before a jury made from the good folks attending an SCV camp meeting!
I expect you can still get some interesting, opinionated answers to this question by interviewing people whose families have always lived in the path of Sherman's march. Regardless of one's point of view about the overall operation, I would not be surprised if some individual crimes against civilians were committed along the way. In fact, I'd be surprised if they weren't.
"I expect you can still get some interesting, opinionated answers to this question by interviewing people whose families have always lived in the path of Sherman's march."
Sometimes it gets a little silly, though. A while back I came across an inquiry from a young man on Facebook, wanting to know if his ancestor's property had been the target of Sherman's bummers. (It was in southwest Georgia, so the answer to that turned out to be no.) The person asking had got it in his head that his ancestor was a wealthy planter who'd been burned out by Sherman, and he was very up front about believing that his family's present-day economic difficulties, almost 150 year later, were the result of that. He had a vague sense of anger and resentment about his circumstances, it seems, and really wanted to be able to hang the responsibility for that on Kerosene Billy.
Foolishness.
"I expect you can still get some interesting, opinionated answers to this question by interviewing people whose families have always lived in the path of Sherman's march."
Sometimes it gets a little silly, though. A while back I came across an inquiry from a young man on Facebook, wanting to know if his ancestor's property had been the target of Sherman's bummers. (It was in southwest Georgia, so the answer to that turned out to be no.) The person asking had got it in his head that his ancestor was a wealthy planter who'd been burned out by Sherman, and he was very up front about believing that his family's present-day economic difficulties, almost 150 year later, were the result of that. He had a vague sense of anger and resentment about his circumstances, it seems, and really wanted to be able to hang the responsibility for that on Kerosene Billy.
Then there are the ruins of structures supposedly destroyed by Sherman, that didn't exist in 1864-65.
Foolishness.
Andy, I'm sure all of this is quite true, too. I intended to infer these sorts of answers and inquiries in my "interesting, opinionated" category. I am pretty sure you understood my drift. Thanks for responding."I expect you can still get some interesting, opinionated answers to this question by interviewing people whose families have always lived in the path of Sherman's march."
Sometimes it gets a little silly, though. A while back I came across an inquiry from a young man on Facebook, wanting to know if his ancestor's property had been the target of Sherman's bummers. (It was in southwest Georgia, so the answer to that turned out to be no.) The person asking had got it in his head that his ancestor was a wealthy planter who'd been burned out by Sherman, and he was very up front about believing that his family's present-day economic difficulties, almost 150 year later, were the result of that. He had a vague sense of anger and resentment about his circumstances, it seems, and really wanted to be able to hang the responsibility for that on Kerosene Billy.
Then there are the ruins of structures supposedly destroyed by Sherman, that didn't exist in 1864-65.
Foolishness.