Republicans are the enemy; our generals suck.

[Art_from_Ark]

118. If Sherman had done the same thing in this day and age,

he'd be sharing a cell with Slobodan Milosovic.

Sherman's army in Georgia was the American equivalent of Viking raiders. The South had essentially lost the war in July 1863, when they lost at Gettysburg and Vicksburg fell. After that, the North was like a cat playing with a mouse. The South had no hope, as its ports were blockaded, it was severed in two when first New Orleans, then Vicksburg fell, and it was unable to import supplies.

The sheer brutality of Sherman's Vikings was just one of the myriad reasons for the vitriol in the South in general and Georgia in particular toward the North for decades after that. And while the North liberated slaves, it had no problem with killing Indians, or child labor, or company towns where workers were paid pittances in scrip that could only be used at overpriced company stores.