Major General William T. Sherman, commanding the compulsory Union Military Division of the Mississippi, orders the burning of Atlanta, Georgia.
NOTE: Atlanta was occupied by no one but civilians
[restored 4/16/2022]
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Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 184-85.
Paul Krugman’s ‘Civil War’ Fantasies by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo204.html
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