| States had the right to secede back then. Its funny how a President must invade his own country to keep control of it. I know plenty of what happened at Fort Sumter. South Carolina seceded and Beauregard gave the leading officer inside the Fort plenty of time to leave but he would not. It's just as if there was a enemy embassy in a state and we told them to leave and they said no. We would make them leave by force, just as PGT Beauregard did at Fort Sumter. Also just in case you didn't know, it was a bloodless battle. I don't see how telling me about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is going to change my mind. 2 totally different eras, and ways of fighting. So dont try to use that as a poll to lean on. I have read a biography on Sherman a year or 2 ago and thats when my views on him came about. He is remebered most for the burning of Atlanta and the march to the sea. What a brave brave general- making women and children by the thousands leave there homes. When the South had done nothing like this to the Union to my knowledge? Or did Lee or even Jackson in his time go town to town burning and taking all the supplys and leaving women and children 'for dead' basically on such a huge scale? I know I can not change your opinion because many of the people today automatically assume that the Union was right, and that the South were just a bunch of rednecks who wanted slavery. Well there wrong. Some people down here, who seriously know Shermans history, don't even say his name. Its that bad. People in the north honestly don't know what he did to the South. Not in a good way, but how he abandoned morals and decency, to achieve the win. |