A Question about the Civil War??????
I spent most of my years in Richmond Virginia. Richmond is a GRAND LOVER of confederate icons. We have statues of Robert E. Lee that is displayed promantely on the Blvd. (I won't even get into all of that) HERE IS MY QUESTION: Why do SO MANY AMERICANS idolize the confederacy? I know that many peoples forefathers fought in that war, but mine did as well and I do not idolize them. One very important reason is b/c 75% of my family tree were the African slaves who were crippled & made to live lower than dogs under the cruel system of slavery. (The culture of slavery was the worst form of terrorism that exists) FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS 1. Why wasn't Jeff Davis and the confed. soldiers tried for treason and put to death at the end of the war?\ 2. Why wasn't the reconstruction plan followed thru? The Confed. states were restored to their with loyal gov. but the south found a new way slave Africans thru Jim Crow Laws. 3. What is it about the Confederacy that causes so much idolization?
What made William Tecumseh Sherman FAMOUS???
What he's best known for now would be the March to the Sea and his use of "total war." That is deliberately destroying land and other resources that the South could use to make war.