re: Post your most unpopular Georgia opinion in this thread

Ok, 9 pages in and no one has said anything about how Sherman was right and fully justified? Man, whatever happened to Fergit, Hell?

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Ok, 9 pages in and no one has said anything about how Sherman was right and fully justified? Man, whatever happened to Fergit, Hell?

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I'll bite. Sherman was an arse and a lot of what he did was unethical in my mind but he was huge in ending the war. I wrote a paper in the best class I took at UGA, the civil war history class, on how the Battle of Atlanta and the subsequent march to the sea was the pivotal moment in the Civil War.

Plenty here probably know more about the Civil War than me but writing this paper led me to this battle being the major turning point. The North had the resources, industrial might, and manpower to win the war without Sherman's tactics. Gettysburg tactically nuked the South's capacity for a real threat on Washington but even after that the North opinion on the war was pretty sour. I read article after article from papers at the time attacking Lincoln and his cabinet in the North.

The people were war weary and even if the war was going to be won, and it was, the people were more and more willing to end the bloodshed and end the war. Sherman dividing the South in 2 while also crushing their spirit and rail network through total war not only further devastated an already decimated Southern fighting force but also destroyed the morale of the South and inflated Northern spirit.

The Civil War was the first true modern war that wouldn't be seen on such a scale until WWI with even more devastating technology being used but many things that happened started in the States in the 1860s. You saw trench warfare being utilized in Virginia in 1864-1865. Gatling guns were mowing down traditional lines. Rifled barrels turned firing lines into slaughter houses. The South could never truly defeat the North, especially after Gettysburg, but it could absolutely bog the war down into a slugfest like we saw in Europe 50 years later. It could even engage in Guerrila campaigns.

However, instead you saw the South divided in two, ripped to shreds through brutal total warfare, and a rejuvenated Union force that saw the end was near. The fight for State's rights turned into a fight for maintaining their homes. Georgia and South Carolina being burned wasn't the only deciding factor but it was big helping Northern public and military morale and crushing the resolve of an overmatched Confederacy.

ter-ror-ism

NOUN

-the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

Oh yea, Sherman’s tactics were absolutely obscene. It’s similar to the Brits fire bombing Dresden or the US burning Tokyo. The latter example combined with US nuclear capabilities arguably saved millions of lives by ending several hundred thousand civilian lives.

Total war is hardly ethical but there’s arguments for its use.

I don’t disagree with ya to be honest

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Trinton Sturdivent is over-rated by the Dawg faithful unless every comment was qualified with "as a freshman".

Great freshman.
Average production when on the field.

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what are you even talking about? Obviously part of the lore is that he played all of 2007 as a TFr but how is he overrated? Was Andrew Thomas overrated in '17 simply because he was a freshman? Trinton was a Freshman All-American at left tackle, I wouldn't call that average. And that was the only season he played.