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38. And, yet, in contemporary accounts Sherman was praised by the South.

At the first city he reached on his march to the Atlantic he found the people starving despite the fact that they lived in the breadbasket of the South. As Confederate money had become worthless, the urban citizens were finding it difficult to buy food from the plantation owners (whose war it really was). So Sherman sent his men out to strip the plantations and feed the southerners in the cities.

In newspaper reports, letters, diaries, etc of the time, many of these southerners hailed Sherman. The Union army was cheered as they left these cities to continue their march.

But the plantation owners had a lot to complain about. They were the leading figures. And they were the ones writing the histories, not the owners of Mom & Pop stores in the towns. In addition, the Confederate generals and politicians put out massive amounts of memoirs trying to shift the blame and figure out how the vaunted Normans with their Celtic allies could have lost to a war to the inferior Anglo-Saxon.


*Note* the march through South Carolina was another thing altogether. Sherman did level South Carolina in punishment for starting the war.