re: #152 Dark_Falcon

I’m not sure it was all unnecessary. The South had to be made to see that continuing the war meant ruin. Sherman made them see that. And he was right to target the South’s ability to wage war rather than its armies. Still, you are correct about the rage he created in the South.

Sherman’s March to the Sea is a textbook example of “total war”, American style. As a Southerner, it doesn’t bother me because it, along with the Union victories on battlefields such as Shiloh (which I’ve visited many times), brought the Civil War to an end, the former Confederate states back into the Union, and marked the end of slavery in America.