Was GENERAL SHERMAN a WAR CRIMINAL?!?!?!?!

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Published 2020-08-11
Episode 5 of Checkmate, Lincolnites! Debunking the Lost Cause myths surrounding William Tecumseh Sherman during the American Civil War, including the Atlanta Campaign, the March to the Sea, and the burning of Columbia – and tackling the "slavery would have gone away on its own" thing while we're at it. Surprisingly, Johnny Reb gets in one or two really solid points.

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~REFERENCES~

[1] Charles Royster. The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans (1991). Vintage Civil War Library, Page 127

[2] Nathan Johnson. “Could Slavery Have Died a Peaceful Death?” (2015). Civil Discourse History Blog www.civildiscourse-historyblog.com/blog/2015/3/24/…

[3] John Majewski. Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation (2009). University of North Carolina Press E-Books

[4] Jennifer M. Murray. “Hard War in Virginia During the Civil War” (2010). Encyclopedia Virginia www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Hard_War_in_Virginia_…

[5] Stephen Davis. All the Fighting They Want: The Atlanta Campaign from Peachtree Creek to the City’s Surrender (2017). Savas Beattie, Page 37-38

[6] Royster, Page 95

[7] Royster, Page 117-118

[8] Royster, Page 342

[9] William T. Sherman. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Vol. II (1889). Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org/files/4361/old/orig4361-h/p4.htm…

[10] Royster, Page 79-82

[11] Royster, Page 34-41

[12] Davis, Page 31, 112

[13] Daniel A. Pollock. “The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance” (2014). SouthernSpaces southernspaces.org/2014/battle-atlanta-history-and…

[14] Royster, Page 328-329

[15] Royster, Page 5-25

[16] Jeff Wilkinson. “Who Really Burned Columbia During the Civil War?” 2018). The State www.thestate.com/news/local/article220228240.html

[17] Royster, Page 26-27

[18] Royster, Page 346-347

[19] Royster, 388-397

All Comments (21)
  • @adonisparts1343
    They didn't name the tank after him, Sherman heard the nazis were using slave labor and reincarnated in tank form.
  • Honestly? Former slaves capturing and flogging their former enslaver should really make anyone smile.
  • @willbxtn
    "Looting houses and reveling in people's misfortune is the terrible, lowest form of terrible act. We're trying to have a nice clean fight so we can continue to own and trade black people".
  • @LUR1FAX
    "They lost because the other side had overwhelming resources" That just sounds like losing to me.
  • @elbruces
    The South: "our military strength is backed by our agriculture." Sherman: (lights a torch) "we can fix that."
  • @ShellyTheSeal
    To compare what the Imperial Japanese Army did to the people of Nanjing to what the Union did to the Confederacy is like comparing a compound fracture to a scraped knee
  • @TheDarthbinky
    Johnny Reb: No Southerner ever did anything bad to any Indian ever! Andrew Jackson: Am I a joke to you?
  • @demomanchaos
    The problem with the flamethrower variant of the Sherman tank is that they kept escaping the test range and heading for Georgia."
  • @Sam-bv7vk
    It's great how lost causers call Sherman a war criminal but are perfectly happy to defend Nathan Bedford Forrest.
  • @sickby85
    In first of all, English is not my native language, but I hope you understand. My favorite Sherman joke is this one. What is the difference between the CSA and Nazi Germany? It took more than one Sherman to defeat Nazi Germany.
  • @pcprincipal9517
    "If you could describe the Confederacy in one word what would it be?" Lincoln:" Treasonous" Robert Lee:' Righteous" Sherman:" Flammable"
  • “We only lost because the north had more recourses.” Yes, that’s a factor in war.
  • @beplanking
    To be fair, whatever they did to that John C. Calhoun statue was almost certainly an aesthetic improvement
  • I’m starting to realise that the release of this series is probably dictated by the rate of facial hair growth.
  • Interesting that they Confederate defenders get mad about the raping of Southern women like it's an unspeakable and horrible crime (and yes it is), but don't say anything about the raping of black and enslaved women.