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 Posted: Wed Jan 11th, 2006 06:14 am
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Kent Nielsen
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 Hi Bill:) Sherman had the public buildings and anything of military value burnt.  Some of his men and I think, some civilian looters did the rest but I suspect and feel  he had come to regard such things as a natural byproduct of the Southerners decision to go to war.