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The Civil War (sic) and 150 Years of Forgotten US Military Atrocities
Via LH
Troops cheering Sheridan amid the flames of the Shenandoah Valley.
Sheridan's Scorched Earth Campaign
by JAMES BOVARD
George Orwell wrote in 1945 that “the nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” The same moral myopia has carried over to most Americans’ understanding of the Civil War. While popular historians have recently canonized the war as a practically holy crusade to free the slaves, in reality civilians were intentionally targeted and brutalized in the final year of the war.
The most dramatic forgotten atrocity in the Civil War occurred 150 years ago when Union Gen. Philip Sheridan unleashed a hundred mile swath of flames in the Shenandoah Valley that left vast numbers of women and childrens tottering towards starvation. Unfortunately, the burning of the Shenandoah Valley has been largely forgotten, foreshadowing how subsequent brutal military operations would also vanish into the Memory Hole.
Source: http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-civil-war-sic-and-150-years-of.html
