re: #67 ProGunLiberal

Okay, that was 2 part response.

FIrst was agreement on Gilad Sharon, and the second was wondering about the logic of using Atlanta, Columbia, and others as kindling.

The logic of destroying Atlanta and Jackson (Miss) was to deny the South their use as hubs of transportation and industry. It was part Sherman’s plan to win the war by breaking the ability and will of the Confederacy to continue the war.

Columbia, South Carolina was destroyed as a punishment for being the first state to secede and having then urged other southern states to do likewise. It was basically that South Carolina had “sown the wind and now deserved to reap the whirlwind.”