American terror

Walters, Matthew O.

Undergraduate Publication:
American terror

dc.contributor.sponsor	Gilje, Paul
dc.contributor.sponsor	Simons, Christopher
dc.creator	Walters, Matthew O.
dc.date.accessioned	2017-08-01T00:34:17Z
dc.date.accessioned	2021-04-14T15:26:01Z
dc.date.available	2017-08-01T00:34:17Z
dc.date.available	2021-04-14T15:26:01Z
dc.description	David W. Levy Prize finalist, Spring 2017
dc.description.abstract	For 150 years, those that have come to call the American Civil War "the War of Northern Aggression" have cited General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea as an unnecessary act of terror; opponents claim the South would have surrendered without this show of brutality, and that what he did was completely illegal from a humanitarian perspective — they are wrong. William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea was a brutal affair, filled with what many Southerners argued to be war crimes; but, these actions can, in truth, be interpreted to have roughly followed today's laws of war, even though they did not yet exist in Sherman's time. War is brutal, dehumanizing, and degrading, and this campaign was simply a product of the time and a necessary evil. By examining the campaign through both Federal and Confederate accounts of the events, as well as the modern laws of war, it can be demonstrated that Sherman's campaign was, in fact, legitimate, legal, and entirely necessary.
dc.description.undergraduate	undergraduate
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dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11244.46/1280
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dc.subject	Sherman's March to the Sea
dc.subject	Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
dc.subject	Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
dc.subject	War (International law)_
dc.subject	David W. Levy Prize
dc.title	American terror
dc.type	Document
dc.type	text
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