daily blog 3/15

Today we learned about Sherman's attack on the confederacy in the south. His action were incredibly destructive in a way that wasn't even warlike. It was basically like he got personal with the Confederates by attack their homes, livestock, their families, and using "scorched earth policy" on complete towns at a time. I know the point of war is to utterly obliterate the enemy but at this point Sherman's attacks were such low blows. It's one think to fight a soldier, but to go up to innocent civilians like that and ruin there lives is just plain cruel and unnecesary. Especially when the war is to get the south back into the union. Even though the union won the war and the confederates were forced to come back in, they still lost the repect of many southerners even to this day.