047 - ”Into the Belly of the Beast” - Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign

Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War · Feb 25, 2022 · 58m

About this episode:

In July of 1863, Major General Henry Halleck posed a question to a fellow Major General, one who was encamped along the Big Black River down in Mississippi. Asked about the continued depth of Confederate resistance after the fall of Vicksburg, William Tecumseh Sherman answered that he felt Confederate belligerence would continue until southerners were made to suffer for a conflict he firmly believed they started. As he put it, “war is upon us, none can deny it. I would not coax them or meet them halfway, but make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before…