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Grant gave the famous command "Create Havoc and Destruction of all resources that would be beneficial to the enemy" to the general. "Clearly requires a devastating reckless to the south, at all costs to destroy. That is, not only destroy the enemy's army, but also destroy the enemy's economic base and the enemy's will to fight. > Vicksburg massacre > In July, 1862, he was appointed commander-in-chief of Memphis Military District, responsible for attacking Vick *** urg, a strong stronghold of the Confederate army. Due to the shortage of troops, the attack was not successful and the war situation was deadlocked. After that > Grant's big army went into attack. Unable to attack for a long time and suffered heavy casualties, the angry federal army began to take it out on the civilians in the city. Grant ordered the destruction of all targets in Vicksburg! Hundreds of heavy artillery shells bombarded the military facilities and houses in the city for several months, blowing all the buildings in Vicksburg to powder and countless innocent civilians were blown to pieces. In July 1863, the Union Army captured Vicksburg, a strategically important city. Tens of thousands of civilians died as a result of hunger and murderous shelling caused by a year-long siege. > Atlanta has become a hell on earth > The famous words of American Civil War hero General Sherman: > "I just want to make the whole Georgia cry wolf! I just want to make Georgia a hell! I just want all Georgians-men, women and children, rich and poor-to feel unforgettable pain! My legion will destroy Georgia and then quickly! If people think I am cruel and cruel, I will tell them that war is war, and its purpose is not to win people's favor! War is hell! If you want to stop all this and want peace, you and your loved ones should lay down their weapons and stop this battlefield! 」> In the autumn of 1864, Major General Sherman, who was appointed as the highest commander of the western army, led 1, federal troops and 254 artillery pieces, defeated General Joe Johnston and General John B. Hood of the Confederate army, invaded Georgia, and occupied Atlanta, a major southern town without any resistance on September 1. > After the occupation, Sherman issued an announcement to local residents, demanding that all militiamen lay down their weapons and all citizens leave the city. After that, the northern army was ordered to set fire to the whole city before leaving in November. Thousands of old people and women resolutely refused to leave Atlanta in order to prevent the Union Army from burning down. They thought that as long as they were in the city, the Union Army would not dare to set fire to their lives. But they are so naive! When the officers and men of the Union Army were preparing to set fire, the old people and women knelt on the ground, hugged the thighs of the Union Army soldiers, burst into tears, and cried at the top of their lungs, begging the soldiers to forgive their cities and homes for God's sake … But the soldiers kicked them away and set fire to all the streets of the city at the same time. > The fire quickly spread throughout the city, and the Union soldiers withdrew from the city safely and in time, ignoring the old people and women. Poor thousands of old people and women, struggling and screaming in despair before the overwhelming fire, trampling on each other ... No one escaped from the fire. At the same time, the union army severely warned Atlanta residents who had evacuated from the city that anyone who tried to put out the fire would be shot! The fire lasted for half a month. At night, the raging fire rises more than 1 meters high, burning the whole sky like day, and you can see the red-hot sky 2 miles away from Atlanta. During the day, the huge smoke from the whole city covered the sky, making the 2 square miles around Atlanta like night ... Outside the city, countless frightened and desperate Atlanta residents watched their cities, homes and relatives being ruthlessly swallowed up by the fire, tearing their hearts out, stamping their feet and beating their chests, crying and shaking the earth ... The priests in Atlanta stood silently in front of the burning city, desperately facing the fiery sky, and kept crossing and praying for themselves. > General Sherman kept his word-"I just want to make the whole Georgia cry! I just want to make Georgia a hell on earth! I just want all Georgians-men, women and children, rich and poor-to feel unforgettable pain! My legion will destroy Georgia and then quickly! 」> Atalanta, once the most prosperous and beautiful city in the south, was completely destroyed after this catastrophe, leaving only one street to survive. This street has now become a historical symbol of Atlanta, and it is called The street under ground. The whole street is really underground, and you have to take the elevator to get there. In other words, the whole of Atlanta today is built on the original ruins! The old urban area was completely destroyed and buried underground. > Three light policies > General Sherman famously said: We must remove and destroy all obstacles, and as long as we think it is necessary, we will kill everyone, take away every inch of land and confiscate every property. In a word-ruthlessly destroy everything we see ... "> In Sherman's view, the attack on ordinary people in the south must be as thorough as the attack on the armed forces. Since Atlanta, although the northern army led by General Sherman has been in a fairly smooth situation, in order to completely scare the south, he ordered the troops to burn down all the houses they met and kill all the livestock and people who resisted. In November 1864, Sherman's army left Atlanta and began a year-long dehumanizing sweep of the South. > Sherman's troops marched 6 miles straight to Savannah, the seaside. Almost flattened the passing place like a roller, and everything that was planted on the ground was completely destroyed. > While advancing all the way, his army completely destroyed all materials and facilities wherever it went, robbed civilians of food and property, killed rebellious civilians, burned farmland, blew up villages, blocked wells with lime, destroyed railways, robbed and expelled one town after another, and burned one town after another. Before Sherman's troops arrived, you could see the spreading flames more than ten miles away, and when Sherman's troops left, there were only charred soil and a few lonely smoking tree stems on the ground. > On December 23, 1864, Sherman occupied Savannah, a famous port city in the south, and sent a telegram to President Lincoln saying that it was a Christmas present for him. After that, the city was set on fire, leaving no tiles. > At the beginning of 1865, Sherman's army invaded Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, and set fire to all the houses and public facilities in the whole city, only the buildings of the University of South Carolina and the administrative organs were preserved. It is impossible to count how many civilians died in the fire. > After that > General Sherman's troops went up in journey to the south and burned all the way to Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston resisted tenaciously. Sherman shelled Charleston with hundreds of heavy guns, killing tens of thousands of civilians. By the time General Sherman captured Charleston, it was broken walls. In this way, a city that has become a ruin, Sherman's army did not let go, and lit a fire as usual. On the outskirts of Charleston, there are still piles of black rubble manor burned by the northern army. > The most serious damage was caused by Confederate President Davis (hometown of Mississippi). Before the civil war, the state ranked fifth in the rich list of the United States. During the civil war, 6% of the white young people in the state were killed, 9% of the towns and plantations were reduced to ashes, and the private property of civilians was completely lost. After the war, Mississippi not only ranked first among the poorest states in the United States, but also this poverty situation lasted for a century. > According to today's value, Sherman's sweeping caused $2 trillion in property losses in the southern United States. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died directly from the famine caused by Sherman's army's sweeping and looting, and millions of people became refugees. Since the 3-year war, I'm afraid we have never seen such atrocities directly against civilians in the west. At that time, Confederate President Davis called it "Attila of America". Sherman's behavior completely broke the boundaries of the old war, and he extended the war to all the people. For more than 1 years, the descendants of the people in the southern United States have been worried about the "Sherman's sweeping" from generation to generation. Most of the officers and men killed in the American Civil War were buried, but the specifications of burial were completely different. It is said that all the bones of the northern army were buried by the Federation, and a monument was erected to commemorate and engrave the names and dates of birth and death of the deceased. The confederate army was regarded as a rebel, and the bodies were buried in the fields, and no one set up a monument. > The ending of General Sherman >: Sherman was promoted to lieutenant general in 1866 and general three years later. As Grant's own people, he has always been with him. He succeeded Grant as the commander-in-chief of the military administrative region in the western United States, and later took over the position of commander-in-chief of Grant's army, and retired in 1884. He died at the age of 71 in 1891. > Sherman has never said any words of repentance, apology or even regret for his actions in the South. Before he died, he said, "I have nothing to repent and apologize for. What I did is worthy of my conscience. There are many Americans who support Sherman's sweeping. "Sherman's approach is completely correct. The only way to end this war is to make it horrible and unbearable for the enemy. As for why General Sherman and his officers and men have such a heart of stone that they can do such evil to the people in the south, General Sherman hit the nail on the head: "I just want southerners and their descendants to learn an unforgettable lesson and never dare to want independence again!" Never dare to resort to war! "-He did it. >