If the messenger of his atrocities can't verify them then what am I to do? I should accept the "supposed" fact based on heresay, myth and fantasy?
Not going to happen.
There is plenty in these pages from reputable sources to verify.
If DiLorenzi is not a reputable author, there is none.
I suppose you would call Sherman himself in his "Memoirs" reputable?
Did you not read his very own words on exterminating women and children?
You know danged well that when I said "He", Sherman, that I meant his troops.
Let me get this clear. Are you saying that kidnapping women and children and sending them hundreds of miles from home to who knows what fate is not an atrocity?
I ask this because it is not clear of what you call an atrocity.
Drawing on Michael Fellman's book, Citizen Sherman, the general is quoted as saying the following about the Plains Indians shortly after the war: "It is one of those irreconcilable conflicts that will end only in one way, one or the other must be exterminated . . . . We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to the extermination, men, women and children" (p. 26). According to Fellman, Sherman "had given [General Phillip] Sheridan prior authorization to slaughter as many women and children as well as men Sheridan or his subordinates felt was necessary . . . . Sherman would cover the political and media front" and "maintained personal deniability." "The more Indians we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed next year," wrote Sherman. "They all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers."
