Was it necessary to destroy the crops that his army didn’t take in foraging so that people of the south would starve? Some people may debate that he was trying to break the will of the South to fight. But the burning of civilian property and poisoning the wells was way too far. Accounts from among his soldiers say that, were they southerners, they would never have stopped fighting. Sherman is the main reason today that many in the south still hate people from northern states. While chat gpt might say he gave orders of restraint, he did little to enforce them and greatly encouraged destruction. There are graveyards in Savannah that his men desecrated and then when I was at Fort Sumter a while ago saw the admission of deliberately targeting civilians. In contrast, when the Confederates came to Gettysburg they were actually civil to the civilian population, and only one civilian was killed — which was an accident.
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