. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ils hardly to be matched in the annals of modern warfare—each soldier played the marauder very heartily. Shermanhimself intimated that the march would make Georgia howl,and would make its inhabitants feel that war and ruin aresynonymous terms. The most intense feeling on the subjectstill exists in the communities over which Sherman marched in1864-65, a feeling which does not exist against anj^ other com-mander on either side, nor against Sherman himself in theregions over which he fought before 1864. That Sherman himself did not in
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ils hardly to be matched in the annals of modern warfare—each soldier played the marauder very heartily. Shermanhimself intimated that the march would make Georgia howl,and would make its inhabitants feel that war and ruin aresynonymous terms. The most intense feeling on the subjectstill exists in the communities over which Sherman marched in1864-65, a feeling which does not exist against anj^ other com-mander on either side, nor against Sherman himself in theregions over which he fought before 1864. That Sherman himself did not intend to go beyond thelimits of legitimate warfare is clear, and the unfortunate ex-cesses were due mainly to the somewhat demoralized disciplineof the troops, to the fact that they were in the midst of a hostilecountry, to the increasing bitterness that had developed asthe war progressed, to the natural development of the permit-ted foraging into reckless plundering, and in part to certaincharacteristics of Sherman himself, which probably affected the [94].
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