cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56194138
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1825854/i-mean-she-s-right
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.
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Let's start with the 13,000 individual pardons to wealthy planters and high-ranking Confederate leaders by Johnson. Write at least 2 paragraphs on how the proper punishment of the traitors would have changed the power dynamics after the war across the South, and establish a parallel with how the Nuremberg trials were conducted folowing WW2.
When you're done, we'll move on to how Southern states were allowed to organize all-white governments without protecting the African American civil rights that the entire fucking war was fought over.
There's more, but let's take it step by step shall we?
Hanging nathan bedford forrest alone might have been enough
So what would proper punishment look like and what goal do you think that would achieve?
You haven't concluded your assignment.
Why are you so agitated?
Death. The proper punishment at the time was death.
For the leaders or everyone who fought for the South? All the supporters as well?
For anyone who owned slaves at the very least.
Do you think the children of the killed people would have moved on anymore than those descendants have today?