Comments by "Pyromania101" (@pyromania1018) on "William T Sherman: The First Modern General" video.

  1. "The south launched a rebellion in direct response to losing an election they had shamelessly attempted to rig under the rather childish delusion that they would unleash the torch and sword upon the northern states and establish a tropical empire in short order, and that they would never be invaded--much less conquered--and their peculiar institution--which they tried to rig the election, and later rebelled, in order to protect--being utterly destroyed. They have sewn the wind, and now they will reap the whirlwind." ~Billy Sherman, probably In all seriousness, I'm aware that this is paraphrasing Arthur Harris in regards to the bombing of Germany, but you can see the similarities, right? The CSA and the war it started were a slaver's rebellion, nothing more. They tried to rig the 1860 election by threats towards the North and by taking Lincoln's name off southern ballots (the real reason he got no southern votes), and when he won anyway, they threw a tantrum about how slavery was endangered, which is what they explicitly said in their Declarations of Secession and their Constitution. States' rights meant nothing to them. Sherman's March was also strategically sound and helped shorten the war. I won't defend his actions toward Native Americans, nor will I pretend that he wasn't racist--though in regards to the latter, he did express regret for it in his later years and became a harsh critic of the Jim Crow laws. They brought this on themselves. And this is coming from a Florida-born, Texas-raised southerner. May those slavers and traitors burn in hell.
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