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 Posted: Tue Dec 25th, 2012 09:43 pm
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 Read some of the articles and books by Steven Oates for one.  Don't just take his work as truth but follow his information.  Look at the goals, desires and actions of some of Lincoln's advisors and you will find more about what motivates them than what you read about their lives.  For instance, Lincoln didn’t approve of slavery but knew the Federal government had no power to regulate it in states designated as slave states.  Sherman by the way approved of slavery; he just knew that it was one of the bases the southern economy was built on.
 
Sherman may not have been the promoter of but he was the match that did destroy many of the family records that included land ownership, marriages, births, deaths and slave ownership.  Why would he destroy them as part of his campaign unless they were part of a military target or part of the support structure.  He was given authority to destroy military related items not civilian ones.  Even his own men didn’t approve of much of the destruction that was inflicted on civilian assets.  Even with the wars of today, civilians and their property are not targeted as part of a military action.  Most of the Union solders under Sherman had the same fears about their families and farms and hoped that they would return home not to find them in the condition they were leaving behind them.

Not all history has been written in our school supplied history books.  You will find more history by studying family histories than you could ever imagine.

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