"They Could Have Had 100 Years of Peace and Prosperity, but They Preferred War"
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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In this 1864 letter from Vicksburg to Maj. Roswell M. Sawyer, a fellow officer and friend, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman outlines his views on warfare against civilians and reveals his views on the hardening Union policy toward the South as the conflict evolved into a harsher, total war.
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