Actually, Sherman didn’t like them on principle, no matter what they wrote, but put politicians on an even lower level and blamed politicians for the Civil War. He was the first head of what became Louisiana State University at the start of the war and saw the manipulation that “forced” the South to secede.
He was called a madman by many, but he was a sane man among lunatics. He saw what the war would be like and how long it would take with greater clarity than any other major figure.
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