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RE: The Founding of Dodge City - Cow town
Sheridan was a savage...right up there with Sherman. Those Union generals...Yeck!
Great history lesson here, Jon. I learned quite a bit!
Sheridan was a savage...right up there with Sherman. Those Union generals...Yeck!
Great history lesson here, Jon. I learned quite a bit!
howdy there @mepatriot! well sir, were the Confederate Generals also savages? or just the Union? It seems like there are so many shameful things that they did.
The Confederate Generals still lived largely by the Code of Chivalry we've been talking about. They NEVER mistreated civilians en masse the way the Union's thugs did. They didn't burn civilian home and cities. The Union was guilty of what even the modern Geneva Convention would call "war crimes" on many, many occasions.
ok well that's depressing. no wonder a lot of Southerners still don't like yankees.
Exactly. Surely you've read about "Sherman's March?"
oh yeah, I know this was war and all but that was over the top cruelty!
Yep. The Union is responsible for modern "all-out war," where innocent civilians are constant targets of the enemy.
it's hard to believe that our own country did that against our own countrymen, and women.
that part of the Civil War is shameful.