Why did USA Union Army Civil War destroy all the homes in Deep South?

[janyd]

Sherman destroyed all these homes and raided innocent people's property in the confederate states

How is this American doesn't it violate constitutional rights what The North did to the South in the American Civil War?

[calin]

Because they were traitors who did not deserve homes anymore. Pretty ballsy to claim civil rights when those people were trying to quit being Americans at the time.

[jorel]

It is called War and it happened 150 years ago kid. Deal with it. Hell, go ahead and file suit against the Union, I don't care. It will just do nothing, but that is what you seem to be good at.

[ern]

Eric,

Couple of thoughts:

1.) General Sherman did not destroy all the homes in the deep south. Quite the contrary, such a task would have been next to impossible. He destroyed a large number but not anywhere near 10% much less all.

2.) It was a war. The concept that civilian homes, farms, railroads, factories etc. are somehow protected during a war is a uniquely ignorant assessment of history.

[seager]

they were ganstas

[tim]

The terms "left wing" and "right wing" came from the French Revolution. The politicians who sat on the left wanted to reject the existing government, while the politicians on the right wanted to preserve the existing government. That's why the right wing is commonly called "conservative." The left wing was characterized by more liberal policies, so the left wing is commonly called "liberal."

During the Civil War, the southern states were so determined to reject the government that they seceded from the Union. So clearly they were definitively left wing.

Lincoln and the Republicans were devoted to preserving the Union by preventing the militant radical left wing states from seceding. So clearly they were definitively right wing.

Lincoln sought to cause change within the established framework of the constitutional process of lawmaking and executive authority. The southern states sought to depart from this established framework by rejecting it completely. This illustrates the conservative constitutional stance of Lincoln, as opposed to the militant radical stance of the left wing southern states, which used radical violence to pursue an agenda that was based on a revolt against the existing government. The southern states fired the first actual cannon shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter, which illustrates their militant radicalism.

After the south lost the Civil War, they continued their militant radicalism by forming the KKK to use intimidation tactics in pursuit of their political agenda, which continued to be based on rebelling against the existing and established government.

The southern states were punished because they were the ones who resorted to violence first. Lincoln had cooperated with them by withdrawing all Union troops from the forts in the Confederate states. The commander at Fort Sumter acted without orders. The Confederates should have blockaded the fort with ships (it was on an island) and forced them to surrender by seige.

Instead, the militant radical Confederates opened fire and started the war. It was the same as the Pearl Harbor attack - the one who resorts to violence first only justifies a massive retaliation.