Major General William T. Sherman, commander of XV Corps, writes to his superior, Major General Ulysses Simpson (a.k.a. Hiram Ulysses) Grant, commander of the compulsory Union Army of the Tennessee, “I fear that we are drifting to the worst sort of vandalism. … You and I and every commander must go through the war, justly charged with crimes at which we blush.”
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References:
James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy, The South Was Right!, (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 1994), 281.
Lincoln’s Total War – Abbeville Institute
www.abbevilleinstitute.org/lincolns-total-war/
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