I agree with your assessment of Margaret Mitchell's role in tarnishing any
understanding of Sherman.  But no matter  what is written, I'm afraid, some
Southerners, and nearly all Native Americans, will continue having a
difficult time believing Sherman had any noble purpose in waging all out
war, either against the Confederacy, or against the Sioux and other Western
peoples he subjugated in the Indian Wars.

-Paul Shelton
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From: Jim Watkinson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:21 PM
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Subject: sherman


Harold is right.  Total war is key.  There was a review of a bio of Sherman
2 or 3 weeks ago in the NYT Review of Books which strongly suggested that
the man who said "war is hell" believed he could end the war sooner -- and
stop the carnage -- by fighting the war in a differrent manner.  This seems
to ring true.  Margaret Mitchell (and David Selznick) probably did more to
set back the cause of understanding the war than anyone who has ever lived.

Jim Watkinson

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