PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoGeneral Grant is such a sweetheartlemmy.worldimagemessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarekersplooshAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 day agoDear Atlanta, I’m coming to burn your shit down in a few weeks. I suggest you GTFO. I would rather not do it, but you know how it is. No hard feelings. Sincerely, General Sherman
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·24 hours ago “[i]f I had made up my mind to burn Columbia I would have burnt it with no more feeling than I would a common prairie dog village; but I did not do it”. Sherman on a town he did NOT order to be burned (but was burned by accident anyway)
Dear Atlanta,
I’m coming to burn your shit down in a few weeks. I suggest you GTFO. I would rather not do it, but you know how it is. No hard feelings.
Sincerely,
General Sherman