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Frankly, this seemed pretty one-sided and less than historically accurate to me.
Theft, looting, arson, rape and murder are being excused as lawful "foraging" against well-to-do slave holders by the North, and military resistance against the looters is a war crime against the South. I understand that taking required food and livestock are foraging, but the personal effects of fellow citizens?
Sherman uses Confederate prisoners to clear minefields, but again, it is excused.
He issues "lawful orders" to kill prisoners as a reprisal?
Pretty bad description of Averasboro and Bentonville.
Hollyweird. Atrotious acting as well.
I though Ken Burns' series was much more balanced and thought provoking.
Hood was a brave man, but was chasing his tail up in Tennessee at this time, on his way to breaking his Army at Nashville. He was a damn fool by this point in the war, shot to pieces and stoned on Laudanum.
TR
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