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The Pros And Cons Of Sherman's War

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Sherman's speech was correct to fight for the freedom of slaves. Some people may agree with Sherman’s speech while others may not. Many people agreed with Sherman because the south had a bad reason for war. Sherman had strong points that helped explain why the south would not stand a chance against the North. Sherman had lots of confidence that the North side would win the war. A lot of his confidence came from the North's supplies, resources, and power. Sherman thought slavery should end and knew that if a war started he must win it. Lots of people agreed with Sherman and thought slavery should end. Even though Sherman's speech had many positives there some negatives also came out of it. Sherman's speech tipped the south over the edge to fight against the north. Everyone knew the war would break out adventoly but Sherman's speech tipped the south to break out into war. The war affected …show more content…

People from the South did ot think they stood a chance against the North and knew they would lose . For example in the passage “Mary Chesnut” it states, “The end has come, no doubt of the fact.. We are going to be wiped off the face of the earth. Now what is there to prevent Sherman taking General Lee in the rear. We have but two armies, and Sherman is between them now”(Chesnut, 482). The North had a huge army far too big for the south to defeat and both sides knew that the North had all the supplies and resources necessary to win the war and end slavery. The Northern people knew they would win the war and talked about how life would change for the better, before the war ever ended. For example the passage “Fredrick Douglass” states, “When the war is over, the country is saved, peace is established, and the black man's rights are secured, as they will be, history With an impartial hand will dispose of that and sundry other questions”(Douglass, 481). Therefore the confidence the North had may have helped them win the

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The North lost 360,000 lives and the untold resources that were indefinable, yet a Confederates who said they fought for the same goals as their forebears of 1776 would have been surprised by the intense convictions of northern soldiers they were upholding the legacy of the American Revolution” (McPherson, 1994) The Gettysburg Address gives a wide view of why the North was fighting, Abraham Lincoln’s Most famous speech, but considerate a failure at the time given. In the Gettysburg Address speech, Lincoln summarizes the reason why there was a war sever years prior to the Civil war, he says that our Father

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Total War left the south in complete and pointless destruction. William Tecumseh Sherman was one cruel general. He lead a march of veterans that would overrun and eventually desolated the south (Overly). Originally both sides believed the war would be a short one resulting in only

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On May the 5th 1964 Major William Tecumseh Sherman was beginning his invasion of Atlanta. He first started with Atlanta because Georgia was “Heart of the Confederacy”. Georgia was heart of the Confederacy because it was an important location. It was mainly important because it had many founderies, factories, supply depots, and it was where the countries main arsenal factories

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All of these many things that Sherman’s army did had a huge impact on the South. After the war, the South would have to rebuild their economy and infrastructure during the Reconstruction period. All in all, Sherman and his army caused a lot of problems for the South, and a lot of victories for the Union. His march was even said to have saved Lincoln in getting re-elected. If Sherman's army didn’t enter, “total war” then the battle

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What Sherman wanted to do was a tactic called “Hard War”, a strategy that took destroying and taking everything and anything that could be useful to the Confederacy. He wanted to hurt the South, economically and mentally. This began Sherman’s March to the Sea, a full charge through Georgia ending in Savannah that greatly harmed Southern supply and morale and

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The State was split on their beliefs and where their allegiance should be placed. ”(Bengstun, 2012). Sherman had to ask the Secretary of War for a large amount of back up. This didn’t perceive well with the people. “His numerous requests for reinforcements and his generally nervous behavior caused some newspapers to describe him as insane”(Biography, 2012).

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Also to shed light on what the Civil war was doing to the United States he wanted to show people a battlefield that young men had died on to fight for their freedoms. There is a strong correlation between what he says in his speech and the field it takes place in. And although the conflict was larger than almost anything

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