Sherman was a soldier who thought in terms of immediate objectives and ‘gentlemanly’ behavior towards those who ‘warranted’ it; Grant altogether too trusting and kind, which came back to bite him five years later when he had to use military force to crush those same men he gave generous surrender terms to.
The war was over and Union leadership wanted to win the Peace and not just the War
Yeah, and how’d that work? Did we win the peace with that strategy? Why don’t we ask the next ~100 or so years of Black folk in the South.
Would it have helped the country heal? Decidedly not.
Would it have helped former Confederates reconcile themselves to the Union? Probably not. Would it have helped the country heal from the prospect of anti-democratic slavers having controlled the South since the country’s birth, and having murdered half-a-million Americans in their attempt to maintain control of it against the will of the majority of the nation? Probably better than the alternative, considering subsequent events.
You do realize that the higher likelihood of that technology’s invention would be said travelers’ demise by environmental effects, right? (bacterial/viral infection, social expulsion, etc)
Sherman was a soldier who thought in terms of immediate objectives and ‘gentlemanly’ behavior towards those who ‘warranted’ it; Grant altogether too trusting and kind, which came back to bite him five years later when he had to use military force to crush those same men he gave generous surrender terms to.
Yeah, and how’d that work? Did we win the peace with that strategy? Why don’t we ask the next ~100 or so years of Black folk in the South.
Would it have helped former Confederates reconcile themselves to the Union? Probably not. Would it have helped the country heal from the prospect of anti-democratic slavers having controlled the South since the country’s birth, and having murdered half-a-million Americans in their attempt to maintain control of it against the will of the majority of the nation? Probably better than the alternative, considering subsequent events.
Let me know when you build a time machine and we can try it your way.
If only.
You do realize that the higher likelihood of that technology’s invention would be said travelers’ demise by environmental effects, right? (bacterial/viral infection, social expulsion, etc)