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]

Subsequent Events:

11/15/1864                   3/25/1865

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

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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