Do you think that General Sherman commited war crimes?
If you think Sherman’s march to the sea and subsequent thrashing of South Carolina were atrocities you don’t have much of a perspective of history. At most a few thousand people died on both sides as a result of his campaign. Sherman believed in maneuver and strategy. He didn’t like to waste lives either of his men or of his enemies. In the south Sherman is the most vilified of the generals, because he is the man who won the war, and he did it without a slaughter. Meade killed tens of thousands of southerners and nobody even knows who he is. As I tell my foreign friends, the Japanese should have studied up on the U.S. civil war before attacking Pearl Harbor. If we’ll burn down our cities we’ll damn sure burn down our enemy’s. Curt LeMay knocked off something like a quarter million to a half million Japanese civilians in his little five month arson spree in Japan’s cities. I can tell you there were few civilized people outside of Japan who gave a damn about it.
