Bit of a nutcase. On the winning side so he gets lionized but he is the man who introduced 'total war' to the united states. Personally I think he was a destructive guy that liked killing people and burning things. The other perspective is 'he had to to win the war'. Whether the war was justified is another mmatter, but at the time the north had all but won.
Thank you for reminding everyone here he’s not exactly a “hero.”
He wasn’t burning commies in a hostile shithole.
He was slaying his countrymen in the United States, in a war the North started. I say this as a Yankee who admires Ulysses S Grant. Sherman was quite unnecessarily cruel to dissenting Americans who weren’t Confederate Troops...
Why did he set everything on fire?
Bit of a nutcase. On the winning side so he gets lionized but he is the man who introduced 'total war' to the united states. Personally I think he was a destructive guy that liked killing people and burning things. The other perspective is 'he had to to win the war'. Whether the war was justified is another mmatter, but at the time the north had all but won.
Thank you for reminding everyone here he’s not exactly a “hero.”
He wasn’t burning commies in a hostile shithole.
He was slaying his countrymen in the United States, in a war the North started. I say this as a Yankee who admires Ulysses S Grant. Sherman was quite unnecessarily cruel to dissenting Americans who weren’t Confederate Troops...
It’s fucking war... brutality is a given.