Me 20 years ago: Sherman went too far. That level of destruction was unnecessary.
Me now: Why accept a surrender when the enemy is still out there?
"I was not bound by the laws of war to give notice of the shelling of Atlanta, a "fortified town, with magazines, arsenals, founderies, and public stores;" you were bound to take notice. See the books."
Best "It's legal, actually" comeback in... well, actually, there were a lot of good ones during the Civil War. But that one's pretty up there.
Away down south in the land of traitors
Who made a community called "shermanposting"? Why does it feel like entire communities are made to support a single post sometimes?
Me. I made it (originally on Kbin) as a transplant from Reddit, where it was a bastion of pro-Union sentiment. Same idea here. o7
More precisely, it's a repository for Civil War memes (and general non-entirely-serious Civil Warposting) that don't glorify traitors and slavers, Sherman is a symbol of crushing secesh slavers, not the only permitted topic.
