...Let's have a little look at your quotes. That's what a person dedicated to the accurate historical record does.
This one:
Curiously, cannot be found with an attribution as to where and when he said that. Doesn't that raise flags? All I see is this passed around on some pages on Southern supporting blogs, and never with *where* it came from.
But why is it after plugging parts of that quote in, the source is not found? Maybe you can help me find an official record of that being an accurate WTS quote. (I'm not doubting that it *may* be...)
Be a good chap and help me out...
OOp...UPDATE! I found a source. Finally. One citation from a 1947 book:
The South During Reconstruction, 1865-1877
It notes the quote is from
2 1/2 years after the war -- in an address to former members of his Command -- and I see your sources leave off this important line at the end:
It was
in sympathy to the Southerners, and to the former slaveholders!
And this quote of yours:
It is noted it is from a October 7th 1864 Report.
But, hmmm...what did that report actually say?
American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia
https://books.google.com/books?id=9...ywOZ6bnwAw&ved=0CEEQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q&f=true
Nothing beyond what that first line says.
You see, when I see quotes that can only be found on Lost Cause or New-Confederate and/or sympathizing cites, it always raises my hinky meter.
It should raise yours too.
Oh, one other thing, don't ever, ever, ever take the word of anything that comes out of the White Nationalist Thomas DiLorenzo's mouth or pen. No reputable historian has an ounce of respect for him, North or South.
That's where a lot of this mix-mashed, out of context (sometimes wholly fabricated) junk emanates from.
Now, that is not to say Sherman and the Union Army did not engage in a brutal WAR - as both sides did (with the South instigating it) -- but if you're going to be accurate, at least look to Academic and reliable sources.