. The photographic history of the civil . David S. Stanley. Leader of the II. M. Judab Commanded a Division Charles C. Walcutt, Leader of aFourth Corps; an All-around Soldier. of the Twenty-third Corps. Brigade in the Fifteenth fe ^ GL i>hmuatt * * * * =a: * ^ Q^- •¥* economic conditions existing in the Southwest Sherman waspreeminently fitted to undertake the task of breaking to piecesthe weakening South. lie was a great strategist if not sosuccessful as a tactician; he won more by marches than othersby righting; he had a genius for large conceptions, and with hisclear compre
. The photographic history of the civil . David S. Stanley. Leader of the II. M. Judab Commanded a Division Charles C. Walcutt, Leader of aFourth Corps; an All-around Soldier. of the Twenty-third Corps. Brigade in the Fifteenth fe ^ GL i>hmuatt * * * * =a: * ^ Q^- •¥* economic conditions existing in the Southwest Sherman waspreeminently fitted to undertake the task of breaking to piecesthe weakening South. lie was a great strategist if not sosuccessful as a tactician; he won more by marches than othersby righting; he had a genius for large conceptions, and with hisclear comprehension of Southern conditions he was able tostrike with irresistible force at the weak points in the it was, according to Robert E. Lee, that he was enabledto give the Confederacy a mortal wound before any of itsarmies surrendered. One feature of Shermans campaigns, after leaving At-lanta, has been severely criticised. Much of the destruction ofprivate property in Georgia and South Carolina, it is held, wasnot only unnecessary but amounted to cruelty in deprivingthe population of the necessities of life. Woodrow Wilsonsays of the work of the armies under Shermans command: They had devoted themselves to destruction an
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