Well, hell yeah I'm still sore about the 'March to the Sea.' And as far as the [b]military[/b] effectiveness of the march was concerned, which Confederate Army was he fighting across Georgia?
Gen. Hood's army was broken at Atlanta, anything after that was gratuitous bloodshed.
It played well in the Northern press, but all it accomplished was to get him to Savannah in a shorter period of time than had he swung further South to 'liberate' Andersonville, or turned back to destroy Gen. Hood's army.
Yes, he certainly 'made Georgia howl' but he set back regional post-war relations by a century or two.
Warring against women, children, and old men out of uniform must have come easily to him. A lot more so than when Gen. Lee moved into Maryland and Pennsylvania. He surely served as a model for future 'total war' advocates.
Guess old Bobby Lee shoulda torched a few homes and fields on his way in and out of the North.
Naw, he was a gentleman. It woulda never occurred to him to make war on civilians!
But hey, you won![BD] That's gotta count for sonething!
Eric The Hun