Thanks especially to jessica who worked with me whose idea it was to do something for this commemoration. We met over lunch and from there it grew. Then we partnered with Historic Columbia. But sponsoring this event also is the History Center at the university of South Carolina. And thanks to tom lincoln and mark van drill for all you did to make this a success. Another contributor was the graduate school of the university of South Carolina. Thank you, all of you for your help and support. We brought four scholars together, some of them coming through sleet and snow last night, delayed at airports, but theyre all here and we are meeting almost exactly at the time, 15 years ago that the union troops were crossing the river and coming in towards the city, toward that moment at 10 00 oclock a. M. In the morning when the city was formerly surrendered and the troops then came down what is today Market Street and were meeting here on Market Street. Im not an expert on this event in civil war
Been demonized and morally unacceptable. The deliberate targeting was taken up in world war ii and ended in the deaths of millions. The bombing of european cities by both sides of the war and japanese cities by the u. S. As well as civilians and china and the philippines and korea by japan were consistent with and encourage by shermans precedent. The logic of saving lives and the long run seems to be refuted by history. Finally, if you scroll through this entry, the words related to William Sherman tags at the bottom includes collateral damage, murderer, terrorist, and war criminal. Let me be a little bit more honest and fair. This not the best source out there. It was written by somebody named text. It misquotes sherman at one time. If you look at the word association, it includes war hero. What it does represent is a popularly held view that william t. Sherman and the march through georgia and the carolinas through the final months of the civil war have something to do with the creat