MEah, no, Sherman was only rewritten as a "terrorist" by Confederate Apologists.
Actually, the nasty stuff attributed to Sherman was both exaggerated, and embellished.
The Civil War was the first Modern war, in many ways. Part of that included targeting the enemy's physical ability to fight, as well as his soldiers. The wild claims that Sherman directed his men to rape and pillage at will, are dead false.
Pretending that Sherman was the devil incarnate, is part and parcel of the modern pro-Southern rewrite of history, that also tries (in vein) to hide the fact that the entire Southern rebellion was because they wanted to remain slave states, and feared that their relative loss of power to the non-slave states, would eventually mean that slavery would be ended.
So they pretend the whole thing was over "states rights." And they pretend that Southern armies were carefully polite at all times (despite raiding the north and stealing what they could while there), and that Sherman was all about plunder.
Just lies.
actually, the main reason for the civil was was government infringement on the states... the states that seceded was because they wanted to set their own laws, not what the government told them to set...
Go back and read the Secession proclamations.
They specifically say that they were seceding to preserve slavery.
The specific "own laws" they wanted to preserve, were those related to maintaining slavery.
Again, saying otherwise, and trying to obscure this by pretending it was all about States Rights, is at the core of the white-wash campaign still being waged today.
Just another fancified lie.
