Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 to Charles A. Morton

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GLC03780
GLC#
GLC03780
Type
Letters
Date
January 9, 1880
Author/Creator
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Title
to Charles A. Morton
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 12.8 cm
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Commander in Chief of the Army Sherman writes to Colonel Morton regarding the destruction incurred on Sherman's March to the Sea. He discusses the term "Sherman's Monuments" for the chimneys left after houses burnt down, claims that he never sanctioned the burning of a private dwelling, and states that there was more desolation in Vicksburg and the Shenandoah Valley left by Grant's troops. He dismisses Southern politicians who decry vandalism in the South during the war, seeing such destruction as something the South brought upon itself.

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