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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Actually, if you read Sherman's letters it wasn't about military strategy, 
it was about the South needing to be "taught a lesson" and in a letter to 
his wife, he said his purpose was the "extermination, not of soldiers 
alone...but of the people"  He ordered his men to shoot civilians randomly 
and wrote about allowing his men to rape red, black and white women.

Nope, it wasn't a military strategy.  Sherman was on sick puppy!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Bev, that was primarily military strategy to ensure that supplies were
> not available to the opposition. We did it in Viet Nam.
>
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