Скачать или смотреть The Burning of Atlanta EXPLAINED: Why Did General Sherman Wage Total War on the South?

Is total war ethical? General William T. Sherman would have said so. “War is Hell.” In 1864, after Sherman’s army was able to take Atlanta, a vital manufacturing center for the Confederacy, he along with the Union chain of command had to decide what to do next. The course of action they choose will have devastating impacts on Southern infrastructure. It will make thousands of people homeless. And it will destroy what is left of the southern will and capacity to fight. Sherman’s March to the Sea started with the burning of Atlanta. This episode examines fight hand accounts of the event as well as the decision process faced by the Union.

After watching the episode, was Sherman right to wage war in the South? Or is he a war criminal who brought the cruelty of war to the doorsteps of innocent civilians?

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Letter of William T. Sherman to James M. Calhoun, E.E. Rawson, and S.C. Wells, September 12, 1864 https://cwnc.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/ite....

Who Burned Atlanta by Phil Leigh https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionat...

Sherman Memoirs Volume 2 Chapter 6 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...

John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies. Ch 14: Correspondence with Sherman https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/...

SHERMAN'S MARCH.; JOURNAL OF AN EYE-WITNESS. Dec. 23, 1864 https://www.nytimes.com/1864/12/23/ar...


Letters Written During the Civil War By Charles Fessenden Morse https://books.google.com/books?id=o6s...

Carrie Berry Diary, August 1, 1864-January 4, 1865 https://www.americancivilwar.com/wome...

Private James H. Peterson https://www.fold3.com/image/314533917...

Atlanta is evacuated https://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...

The destruction of Atlanta begins https://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...

Sherman Burns Atlanta, November, 1864 https://landmarkevents.org/sherman-bu...

The Atlanta Campaign of 1864: The Camera at War https://www.archives.gov/education/le...

LetterJoy: Sherman Letter Postscript (Mail-Service)