On this day in 1864, Union General William T. Sherman orders the business district of Atlanta, Georgia,destroyed before he embarks on his famous March to the Sea.
When Sherman captured Atlanta in early September 1864, he knew that he could not remain there for long. His tenuous supply line ran from Nashville, Tennessee, through Chattanooga, Tennessee, then one hundred miles through mountainous northern Georgia. The army he had just defeated, the Army of Tennessee, was still in the area and its leader, John Bell Hood, swung around Atlanta to try to damage Sherman’s lifeline. Of even greater concern was the Confederate cavalry of General Nathan Bedford Forrest,a brilliant commander who could strike quickly against the railroads and river transports on which Sherman relied.
During the fall, Sherman conceived of a plan to split his enormous army. He sent part of it, commanded by General George Thomas, back toward Nashville to deal with Hood while he prepared to take the rest of the troops across Georgia. Through October, Sherman built up a massive cache of supplies in Atlanta. He then ordered a systematic destruction of the city to prevent the Confederates from recovering anything once the Yankees had abandoned it. By one estimate, nearly 40 percent of the city was ruined. Sherman would apply to the same policy of destruction to the rest of Georgia as he marched to Savannah. Before leaving on November 15, Sherman’s forces had burned the industrial district of Atlanta and left little but a smoking shell.
What I was taught in a yankee prison camp they called a school was sherman’s glorious march to the sea. Glorious. Actually it was the 1st of a rampaging, looting, raping (especially black girls) gang of thugs dressed in pretty uniforms. It started a trend that will destroy western civilization. Yankees of that day were evil, deranged barbarians and they remain so today.
SECESSION!
Yeah, they left out all of that and more in the telling.
Sherman was the greatest General of the The War of Northern Aggression and the northern criminals could not have won the war without him, which makes it all the more humorous that at the end of his victorious campaign the SJWs who controlled the Federal government attacked him with charges of incompetence , corruption and racism . Yes racism , because he didn’t want trains of feral Africans following his army and interfering with combat operations so he left a large group behind at a river crossing . And for that he couldn’t be the champion of the Brave New Union .
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
William Tecumseh Sherman
“I returning South on horseback, by Rome, Allatoona, Marietta, Atlanta, and Madison, Georgia. Stockton stopped at Marietta, where he resided. Hammond took the cars at Madison, and I rode alone to Augusta, Georgia, where I left the horse and returned to Charleston and Fort Moultrie by rail. Thus by a mere accident I was enabled to traverse on horseback the very ground where in after-years I had to conduct vast armies and fight great battles. That the knowledge thus acquired was of infinite use to me, and consequently to the government, I have always felt”
― William T. Sherman, The Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
Worth a read.
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
by Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
https://archive.org/details/memoirsgeneralw11shergoog/page/n10
Apparently Sherman was fan of neither Press nor African.
“The American press is a shame and a reproach to a civilized people. When a man is too lazy to work and too cowardly to steal, he becomes an editor and manufactures public opinion.”
I like niggers well enough as niggers, but when fools and idiots try and make niggers better than ourselves, I have an opinion.― William T. Sherman
If we had a Sherman today, I’d tell him to start at Walnut Creek, CA and start burning his way west.
Sherman knew how to win a war. Kill the enemy until they cannot resist anymore. Then destroy his country so much that it takes all the fight out of them. It’s ugly but effective.
With an all-black city council and black mayor, combined with nearly all-black county commissions in the counties that the city overlaps, the destruction of the new city continues unabated (and has been going on for some time). In one of the surrounding counties, the old black sheriff MURDERED the new black sheriff, in another, the black sheriff was under federal investigation but now holds a different public office, and dozens of federal investigations continue into the criminal activities of the previous black mayor. The one before that was brought up on other federal charges. What a wonderful place. Georgia should have picked its own cotton.
I think we may need to do this to Washington D.C.
Yes, and all college campuses in the U.S.
The wrong side won the War of Northern Aggression. And the wrong side also won WWI and WWII in continental Europe. Thus the situation we’re living in today!