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Originally Posted by alton987
Sherman attacked a bunch of Farms, and civilians...
Not that Sherman’s idea of "Total War" wasn't great but it didn't require a "Great General" to carry it out.
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So your saying it doesn't take a great General to march through the heart of enemy territory, destroying cities, liberating slaves, devastating the property of slave owners, and bringing the fight to thoose who started and supported it, while only losing 100 men and in large part ending the bloodiest war in history?
Shermans March to the Sea was in no way even close to the brutality of the war up North between the Army of the Potomic and the Lee's Army of Virginia. More people died in a single day at Antietam then died from Shermans combined campaigns in the south.
His actions saved the lives of thousands on both sides.