Thread by @kateneuropsych

Let's not forget it was for damn good reason:

Atlanta to Savannah, GA. The purpose of Union Gen Sherman’s Nov 15 - Dec 21, 1864; 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah was to frighten GA’s civilian pop into abandoning t/Confederate cause. Sherman’s soldiers did not destroy
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https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1479200605130403844

any of the towns in their path, but they stole food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back. The Yankees were “not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people,” Sherman explained; as a result, they needed to “make old
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and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.”
history.com/topics/america…

PS. Lincoln was nothing if not a realist. T/man had no rose colored glasses on abt what he was doin or why & pulled out all t/stops to preserve human life & make t/US reflect in t/reality of daily living t/democratic principles it so easily touted but denied specifically to Af-Am