Day 18: A moment that made you cry

[ericadawn16]

Day 18: A moment that made you cry

This is going to sound a bit redneck but...

Actually, I'm always sad just reading about Sherman's march to the sea in history books.

One one hand, it can be argued that it was a necessary evil to end the war quicker.

On the other hand, it severely hampered reconstruction efforts and must have been very traumatic for the civilians. Suddenly, all their land, their possessions and their livelihood are destroyed and done so by the military. Poor, rich, white, black, it didn't matter. They burned everything and how hard would it have been for the children? The younger ones wouldn't have understood what was going on and the older ones would have greater incentive to hate the north.

Comments

[jackdavfan692.livejournal.com]

Another non-Southerner here. It doesn't sound redneck to me at all. *Shakes head* The methods General Sherman used in his attacks were horrible! I've neither read Gone With The Wind nor seen the film version of it, but a little bit was shown in another film called Glory (it was about one of the first all-black regiments to fight on the side of the North during the Civil War), and I've of course read about General Sherman in history books, like you have.