the civil war

[Lee]

mpdickens wrote:
> 
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > There are many scholarly essays which assert that Sherman was the
> > first military leader in modern history who truly understand that in order
> > to win a war, you must defeat not only the opposing military forces, but
> > also the spirit of the civilians.  Creating a swatch of destruction across
> > Georgia certainly drove that point home.
> 
> The south had, by this time, decisively lost the war. Also, no other
> city or state that Sherman conquored was so totally destroyed as Atlanta
> and Georgia.

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Believe Charlestown S.C. was given the worst treatment. Sherman claimed
that they had started the insurrection and they should pay the most for
it.

Lee