Shermans March

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hundred years to recover economically. A scar still remains on the southern psyche. (Miles, Intro) When I look carefully at this quote, I can see the strong emotions each side had toward the march. The North saw it as a great triumph; while the South saw the march as if the devil himself had come down and burned their homes and crops. What Sherman thought about this is expressed in the introduction of David Nevin’s book Sherman’s March. To Sherman, the secession was the South’s greatest sin and Southerners who supported the Confederacy. Confederacy deserved to be treated like criminals. “To those who submit to rightful authority, all gentleness and forbearance,” he proclaimed. “But to petulant and persistent secessionists, why death is mercy and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better. (Nevin, 8) This quote shows a very hard man, one who could not forget why he was destroying Southern plantations in the first place. A comparison could be drawn between Sherman and the ...

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by several columns in circuit, so as to catch Hood’s army;” (Simpson, 754) The reason for such lies would give the Confederates a diversion that would lead them away from his real goal of breaking the back of the Confederacy. He probably did not want people to know his true intentions of burning Georgia. He also would not want General Hood’s armies to have any inclination of what he was about to do. This shows that he was a very clever man who used all things at his disposal wisely. Sherman remained silent about what his army was doing in Georgia in order to protect his troops. In a letter to his wife he wrote, We start today. My arm is quite well. The box of clothing came last night. I ...

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