The destruction of Atlanta was not a war crime because dixies aren’t human

The destruction of Atlanta was not a war crime because dixies aren’t human.

Damn right and I'd do it again.

>inb4 assmad Dixiecuck bitches about "muh honorless yankees" and "how could you do that to your "countrymen""

"You have heretofore read public sentiment in your newspapers, that live by falsehood and excitement; and the quicker you seek for truth in other quarters, the better. I repeat then that, by the original compact of government, the United States had certain rights in Georgia, which have never been relinquished and never will be; that the South began the war by seizing forts, arsenals, mints, custom-houses, etc., etc., long before Mr. Lincoln was installed, and before the South had one jot or tittle of provocation. I myself have seen in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, hundreds and thousands of women and children fleeing from your armies and desperadoes, hungry and with bleeding feet. In Memphis, Vicksburg, and Mississippi, we fed thousands and thousands of the families of rebel soldiers left on our hands, and whom we could not see starve. Now that war comes to you, you feel very different. You deprecate its horrors, but did not feel them when you sent car-loads of soldiers and ammunition, and moulded shells and shot, to carry war into Kentucky and Tennessee, to desolate the homes of hundreds and thousands of good people who only asked to live in peace at their old homes, and under the Government of their inheritance. But these comparisons are idle. I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success."

Which great battles were won under Sherman's command again? Oh just one siege of a city defended by a poorly supplied army of lesser numbers and worse technology? What a great commander, truly a bold genius. He was also a closet communist, what a badass! Sherman owes his whole legacy to butthurt southerners using him as a boogeyman for propaganda purposes, he wasn't man enough to forge it himself.

Why do you say he was a closet communist?
Can you elaborate on this meme?

Y*nkees have no honor

they needed to use dirty tricks to win and we still killed more of them. Y*nkees cannot fight.

Ancaps aren't human I agree.

>closet communist

Did Sherman want a stateless and classless society? I like him even more now. Unless you're using the American version of communism in which case I still like him even more.

>classless
I love Sherman, but sadly he was a racist who would've been perfectly fine with keeping slavery.

>Stateless
One of his main reasons for serving in the Union was nationalism.

Also, just curious, what is your idea of "the American version of communism"?
I've heard this closet communist meme before. I know he had financial issues before the war, so maybe that's where it comes from, but lots of people go through financial hardship and don't become communists. Asking in good faith and genuine curiosity, what is your source?

>killed more of the enemy
>still lost

It must suck to suck, user

I'VE BROUGHT PEACE, FREEDOM, JUSTICE, AND SECURITY TO MY NEW GEORGIA!

Anything that isn't sucking corporate dick is communism, anonymous. Didn't you know? I was just asking that user what he meant.

>two generals hurled back into the north by a literal underpopulated backwater
Yeah, our union effort was really something astounding

torching cities is not a warcrime. but stealing from them is.

/leftyhis/, stop trying to turn Sherman into the American Bomber Harris

I was thinking you meant a Stalin style government and was confused as to why that would make you like him more, but this makes sense now, thank you friendo.

Who is Bomber Harris? :^)

Do it again uncle Billy!

I'm not a tankie, but I am a fan of marxism. Actual communism not American communism.

Funny since Sherman was a Dixieboo himself. What does that make him?

but socialism tho

Go on.

I thought the definition of Dixieboo was someone who loves the CSA, not just the south?

Do it again Uncle Billy

Health care... but with private property

Healthcare is a nightmare and I'm glad Americans cannot be healthy unless they pay for it. Absolutely disgusting practise healthcare is. Who wants to be in good health? Hot damn, I'd kill myself if I were healthy and not bankrupt.

Do it again, uncle Billy

You're right, what am I thinking

Do it again, Uncle Billy!

okey, will do

Like an American.

Do it again Uncle Billy!

Do it again Uncle Billy

*Battle Hymn of the Republic intensifies.

He didn't even do anything. Sure he marched to the sea, destroyed railroads and telegram poles, but there was no wide spread destruction that people describe. Atlanta and all those towns prior surrendered immediately as Sherman walked in. They knew if they resisted they'd get rolled. Sherman's March to the Sea? More like Sherman's Stroll to Atlanta.

Question where do American books get made? Answer, Deep South Georgia. All those buildings in those towns ARE STILL STANDING. Really makes you think

Eat a Snickers and calm down Willy.

I still need answers user

It's Billy or Cump you uncultured swine

This makes it sound cooler desu

We have this thread everyday.

>54% black
Do it again uncle Billy!

...And?

But what % gray?

But that's the same as praising the guy who had to sit beside the nuclear launch missle during the cold war. He fucking did nothing, despite the historical significance around him. He's just some average guy who did an average job with no extremes in his methods. People are all larping like he's Gengis Kahn, when he's more like Joe Shmoe

Do it again uncle billy!

Nuclear launch button guy sounds cool too though.

destroying the property of your enemy is not a war crime to begin with, hell, you're already depriving enemy soldiers of their lives, what's more evil about halting their means of making war?

I could have sworn I said this already in this thread, but Sherman did order his men to basically issue I O U recipes to the people they took stuff from. They didn't really do it, but he did tell them to, so technically he might be in the clear, but I'm not an expert on military law or regular law for that matter.

Nobody gave a shit about slavery

He wasn't. Modern day communist retards just like to think so because it hurts their ego that the guy who actually physically advanced their cause more than any other was a conservative white man who didn't care about slavery and carried out the continuation of the Indian Wars after the war was over. See I actually don't mind Sherman, but he is way overrated. Honestly, so is Grant. The main reason they performed better than their predecessors had virtually nothing to do with ability. I commend Grant for at least being a hard fighter and willing to be proactive, but honestly all Sherman did was use his superior numbers to constantly force the enemy to maneuver, which he would then counter-maneuver with his extra troops. It was smart, but it wasn't brilliant or destructive or an overwhelming show of force like its been memed throughout the years.

DO IT AGAIN, UNCLE BILLY

Abolitionists did, though they were the minority. Grant certainly had sympathy for them though he had once been a slave holder himself. Many people also wanted slavery to die out, not because it was morally wrong, but because it competed with wage labor which they believed was the better system. To say nobody cared is blatantly wrong. Some didn't, but some certainly did.

I think it's just a shitpost about Field Order 15.

>Can't win a single battle so he resorts to murder women and children so he can feel alpha.
What a chad indeed.

He was a maniac. This is undisputed.

Though your post doesn't outright conflate the two, it should be noted that abolitionists by and large didn't have moral objections to slavery. The egalitarian abolitionist, as is painted in popular culture for this era, made up something like less than 2% of all abolitionists by scholarly estimates.

Most opposed it for being an unsustainable economic model, for hindering industrialization, or mostly just to thumb their nose at the South after half a century of petty politicking.

Lmao ok I understand now.

When did he order women and children to be killed, desu?

My memory remains murky, but wasn't Sherman subordinate of Grant? When exactly was he given his own army for his march to the sea, and can you refresh my timeline in relation to Gettysburg?

Reminder that we could've had a unique form of American Socialism that would've put the world to shame

Yes, Sherman was under Grant from Shiloh basically all the way through. When Grant was promoted to General of the Army of the US, Sherman was given command of the western theatre.

Like clockwork. D*xies are the most predictable animals on the planet