Here's some quotes from other notable figures you've heard about in History. But I guarantee that Native Americans know these men in a totally different way than what you've been taught. Unless you had an honest history teacher maybe and that's kinda rare. .
Generals William T. Sherman
& Phil Sheridan
"The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will. War suits them. They are splendid riders, first rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace"...Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"The more Indians we can kill this year the fewer we will need to kill the next, because the more I see of the Indians the more convinced I become that they must either all be killed or be maintained as a species of pauper. Their attempts at civilization is ridiculous"... Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"Look to the South and you who went with us through that land can best say if they have not been fearfully punished. Mourning is in every household, desolation written in broad characters across the whole face of their country, cities in ashes and fields laid waste, their commerce gone, their system of labor annihilated and destroyed. Ruin and poverty and distress everywhere, and now pestilence adding to the very cap sheaf of their stack of misery"..... Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
P. S
Native Americans know him to as "the man who left a 60 mile wide, 300 mile long path of death and desolation across GA and up through SC."
"I have destroyed over 2,000 barns filled with wheat, hay and farming implements; over 70 mills filled with flour and wheat, and have driven in front of the Army over 4,000 head of stock and have killed and issued to the troops not less than 3,000 sheep. Tomorrow I will continue the destruction down to Fisher’s Mill. When this is completed, the Valley from Winchester to Staunton, 92 miles, will have but little in it for man or beast".....from an Oct. 7, 1864 report to Gen. Grant from Gen. Sheridan.
Something that you may find unimportant but actually is significant in the War Between the States, Honest Abe Lincoln was waging war on women and children on two fronts. He sent troops to one front who were raping, pillaging and murdering in the West as well as the South.
It's also important to note that both General Sheridan and General Sherman who committed these war crimes, did so under Abraham Lincoln. Sherman is known for his "march to the sea," but what history doesn't tell you is he ordered his troops along the way to kill citizens on the way simply for target practice to prepare for the battle that the Generals knew would be waged at the end of their journey. It's also noted by historians and writers that Sherman once wrote to his wife that his purpose was the "extermination, not of soldiers alone...but of the people" of the South. Sherman often ordered his soldiers, many of whom were street criminals from the Northern as well as European cities, to shoot civilians at random. He ordered his men to burn entire towns in Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia. Also there are thousands of letters and diaries that survived the war that attest to the rape of both black and white women by Sherman's men. Keep in mind, Lincoln was also aware of these incidents as well.
Another of Lincoln's generals Phil Sheridan was known for the horrors he inflicted on civilians in the Shennandoah Valley during the war. In the autumn of 1864, with the winter closing in, Historians note through letters and journals that Sheridan ordered the troops to burn crops and kill thousands upon thousands of cattle and sheep and turned women and children out in the cold.
But it gets even better because while Sheridan was destroying crops, killing livestock and starving women and children, another Colonel named J. M. Chivington was making his name in history. He's famous and memorable to myself and Native Americans because he was slaughtering, scalping and mutilating Arapahos as well as my Tribe the Cheyenne. These camps nor the Chief's had ever waged war against White's or the Calvary and were considered NON HOSTILE. They were camped in a place called Sand Creek in Colorado. The Indians in the camp had chose to live in peace with the white man because they had come to trust Major Edward W. Wynkoop who was the commander of Fort Lyon located forty miles from Sand Creek. Major Wynkoop was a rare man in the Union army in that he was honorable and kept his word. He did not believe in waging war on civilians either and that was to be his ultimate undoing. He was known to the Indians as Tall Chief Wynkoop, he would eventually resign in protest over Phil Sheridan's policies toward the Indians in the West. Wynkoop was removed from his post at Fort Lyon because of his kindness to the Indians and was replaced with a cruel man named Major Scott J. Anthony who lied to the Indians and who, under the command of Colonel Chivington, raided the encampment at Sand Creek. He and his troops slaughtered men, women and children. Some of the Indians huddled together under a large American flag which belonged to the chief Black Kettle, but the Yankee soldiers killed them anyway. One little girl, Dee Brown recounts her story in the book "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" about how her mother met the soldiers waving a white flag, and they still shot her down in cold blood.
"The government of the U.S. has any and all rights which they choose to enforce in war - to take their lives, their homes, their land, their everything...war is simply unrestrained by the Constitution...to the persistent secessionist, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better".. Mjr. Gen. W. T. Sherman, Jan. 31, 1864.
This war on citizens was not simply restrained to be applied against men and women but also children. Gen. Sherman in a June 21, 1864, letter to Lincoln's Sec. of War, Edwin Station wrote, "There is a class of people men, women and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order." Stanton replied, "Your letter of the 21st of June has just reached me and meets my approval." While the war on civilians started much earlier than 1864, the above is simply proof that the war on children was waged as well.
"It is hard on our men held in Southern prisons not to exchange them, but it is humanity to those left in the ranks to fight our battles. Every man released on parole or otherwise becomes an active soldier against us at once, either directly or indirectly. If we commence a system of exchange which liberates all prisoners taken, we will have to fight on until the whole South is exterminated." .....Gen. Grant, August 18, 1864 in a dispatch to Gen. Butler.
PHOTO ONE
A delegation of Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Arapaho chiefs in Denver, Colorado on September 28, 1864. Black Kettle 2nd from left front row
PHOTO TWO
Some of the identifications of Indians are uncertain. Front row, kneeling, left to right: Major Edward W. Wynkoop, commander at Fort Lyon and later agent for the Cheyennes and Arapahoes; Captain Silas S. Soule, provost marshal, later murdered in Denver. Middle row, seated, left to right: White Antelope (or perhaps White Wolf), Bull Bear, Black Kettle, One Eye, Natame (Arapaho). Back row, standing, left to right: Colorado militiaman, unknown civilian, John H. Smith (interpreter), Heap of Buffalo (Arapaho), Neva (Arapaho), unknown civilian, sentry. Another identification states that Neva is seated on the left and the Indian next to Smith is White Wolf (Cheyenne)."
PHOTO THREE
U.S. Army Colonel John Chivington. Chivington was a Methodist preacher, freemason, and opponent of slavery.
Generals William T. Sherman
& Phil Sheridan
"The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will. War suits them. They are splendid riders, first rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace"...Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"The more Indians we can kill this year the fewer we will need to kill the next, because the more I see of the Indians the more convinced I become that they must either all be killed or be maintained as a species of pauper. Their attempts at civilization is ridiculous"... Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"Look to the South and you who went with us through that land can best say if they have not been fearfully punished. Mourning is in every household, desolation written in broad characters across the whole face of their country, cities in ashes and fields laid waste, their commerce gone, their system of labor annihilated and destroyed. Ruin and poverty and distress everywhere, and now pestilence adding to the very cap sheaf of their stack of misery"..... Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
P. S
Native Americans know him to as "the man who left a 60 mile wide, 300 mile long path of death and desolation across GA and up through SC."
"I have destroyed over 2,000 barns filled with wheat, hay and farming implements; over 70 mills filled with flour and wheat, and have driven in front of the Army over 4,000 head of stock and have killed and issued to the troops not less than 3,000 sheep. Tomorrow I will continue the destruction down to Fisher’s Mill. When this is completed, the Valley from Winchester to Staunton, 92 miles, will have but little in it for man or beast".....from an Oct. 7, 1864 report to Gen. Grant from Gen. Sheridan.
Something that you may find unimportant but actually is significant in the War Between the States, Honest Abe Lincoln was waging war on women and children on two fronts. He sent troops to one front who were raping, pillaging and murdering in the West as well as the South.
It's also important to note that both General Sheridan and General Sherman who committed these war crimes, did so under Abraham Lincoln. Sherman is known for his "march to the sea," but what history doesn't tell you is he ordered his troops along the way to kill citizens on the way simply for target practice to prepare for the battle that the Generals knew would be waged at the end of their journey. It's also noted by historians and writers that Sherman once wrote to his wife that his purpose was the "extermination, not of soldiers alone...but of the people" of the South. Sherman often ordered his soldiers, many of whom were street criminals from the Northern as well as European cities, to shoot civilians at random. He ordered his men to burn entire towns in Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia. Also there are thousands of letters and diaries that survived the war that attest to the rape of both black and white women by Sherman's men. Keep in mind, Lincoln was also aware of these incidents as well.
Another of Lincoln's generals Phil Sheridan was known for the horrors he inflicted on civilians in the Shennandoah Valley during the war. In the autumn of 1864, with the winter closing in, Historians note through letters and journals that Sheridan ordered the troops to burn crops and kill thousands upon thousands of cattle and sheep and turned women and children out in the cold.
But it gets even better because while Sheridan was destroying crops, killing livestock and starving women and children, another Colonel named J. M. Chivington was making his name in history. He's famous and memorable to myself and Native Americans because he was slaughtering, scalping and mutilating Arapahos as well as my Tribe the Cheyenne. These camps nor the Chief's had ever waged war against White's or the Calvary and were considered NON HOSTILE. They were camped in a place called Sand Creek in Colorado. The Indians in the camp had chose to live in peace with the white man because they had come to trust Major Edward W. Wynkoop who was the commander of Fort Lyon located forty miles from Sand Creek. Major Wynkoop was a rare man in the Union army in that he was honorable and kept his word. He did not believe in waging war on civilians either and that was to be his ultimate undoing. He was known to the Indians as Tall Chief Wynkoop, he would eventually resign in protest over Phil Sheridan's policies toward the Indians in the West. Wynkoop was removed from his post at Fort Lyon because of his kindness to the Indians and was replaced with a cruel man named Major Scott J. Anthony who lied to the Indians and who, under the command of Colonel Chivington, raided the encampment at Sand Creek. He and his troops slaughtered men, women and children. Some of the Indians huddled together under a large American flag which belonged to the chief Black Kettle, but the Yankee soldiers killed them anyway. One little girl, Dee Brown recounts her story in the book "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" about how her mother met the soldiers waving a white flag, and they still shot her down in cold blood.
"The government of the U.S. has any and all rights which they choose to enforce in war - to take their lives, their homes, their land, their everything...war is simply unrestrained by the Constitution...to the persistent secessionist, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better".. Mjr. Gen. W. T. Sherman, Jan. 31, 1864.
This war on citizens was not simply restrained to be applied against men and women but also children. Gen. Sherman in a June 21, 1864, letter to Lincoln's Sec. of War, Edwin Station wrote, "There is a class of people men, women and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order." Stanton replied, "Your letter of the 21st of June has just reached me and meets my approval." While the war on civilians started much earlier than 1864, the above is simply proof that the war on children was waged as well.
"It is hard on our men held in Southern prisons not to exchange them, but it is humanity to those left in the ranks to fight our battles. Every man released on parole or otherwise becomes an active soldier against us at once, either directly or indirectly. If we commence a system of exchange which liberates all prisoners taken, we will have to fight on until the whole South is exterminated." .....Gen. Grant, August 18, 1864 in a dispatch to Gen. Butler.
PHOTO ONE
A delegation of Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Arapaho chiefs in Denver, Colorado on September 28, 1864. Black Kettle 2nd from left front row
PHOTO TWO
Some of the identifications of Indians are uncertain. Front row, kneeling, left to right: Major Edward W. Wynkoop, commander at Fort Lyon and later agent for the Cheyennes and Arapahoes; Captain Silas S. Soule, provost marshal, later murdered in Denver. Middle row, seated, left to right: White Antelope (or perhaps White Wolf), Bull Bear, Black Kettle, One Eye, Natame (Arapaho). Back row, standing, left to right: Colorado militiaman, unknown civilian, John H. Smith (interpreter), Heap of Buffalo (Arapaho), Neva (Arapaho), unknown civilian, sentry. Another identification states that Neva is seated on the left and the Indian next to Smith is White Wolf (Cheyenne)."
PHOTO THREE
U.S. Army Colonel John Chivington. Chivington was a Methodist preacher, freemason, and opponent of slavery.
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