“Sherman making a mockery of Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s recent assertion, while visiting the Rebel army, that the Yankees would have to retreat from Georgia or starve, and predicting that the retreat would be “more disastrous than was that of Napoleon from Moscow.” American Civil WarCivil War Western Theater Book:William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life Source: William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
“While many a Georgian condemned the Yankees for ravaging the countryside, it should be noted that the Confederates often treated Southerners just as badly, if not worse. Major” American Civil WarCivil War Western Theater Book:William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life Source: William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life