> conservashits
>>55534120
>jews
>>55534161
the country is going down; you can have it
>>55534120
Immediately after the war, Dodge proposed enslaving the Plains Indians and forcing them “to do the grading” on the railroad beds, “with the Army furnishing a guard to make the Indians work, and keep them from running away”. Union army veterans were to be the “overseers” of this new class of slaves. Dodge’s proposal was rejected; the U.S. government decided instead to try to kill as many Indians as possible.
In his memoirs, Sherman has high praise for Thomas Clark Durant, the vice president of the Union Pacific Railroad, as “a person of ardent nature, of great ability and energy, enthusiastic in his undertaking”. Durant was also the chief instigator of the infamous Credit Mobilier scandal, one of the most shocking examples of political corruption in U.S. history. Sherman himself had invested in railroads before the war, and he was a consummate political insider, along with Durant, Dodge, and his brother, Senator John Sherman.
President Grant made his old friend Sherman the army’s commanding general, and another Civil War luminary, General Phillip Sheridan, assumed command on the ground in the West. “Thus the great triumvirate of the Union Civil War effort,” writes Sherman biographer Michael Fellman, “formulated and enacted military Indian policy until reaching, by the 1880s, what Sherman sometimes referred to as ‘the final solution of the Indian problem’”.
What Sherman called the “final solution of the Indian problem” involved “killing hostile Indians and segregating their pauperized survivors in remote places.” “These men,” writes Fellman, “applied their shared ruthlessness, born of their Civil War experiences, against a people all three [men] despised. . . . Sherman’s overall policy was never accommodation and compromise, but vigorous war against the Indians,” whom he regarded as “a less-than-human and savage race”
What a hero
>B-but they was oppressing the blacks
>>55534271
>>55534120
>West Virginia
>In the Confederacy
k
>>55536187
To be fair we likely would join it this time around.
>>55534120
>posting horsey
>>55534120
Yer gotdamn right
>>55535457
Friendly reminder that the north had nearly twice as many casualties :^)
>cut off southern supplies
>still get killed
Lol
Can't you at least post Horsey's latest piece of liberal propaganda?
>>55534271
>>55535457
Stonewall Jackson would have wrecked Sherman's ass if he hadn't gotten friendly fired.
>>55536564
Friendly reminder that the South still got BTFO and will always be Yankee bottom bitches
