Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“George Orwell wrote in 1945 that ‘the nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.’ This week is the 160th anniversary of one of the worst atrocities of the American Civil War, a barbarous episode that vanished long ago from history books. Union General Philip Sheridan laid waste to a hundred mile swath of the Shenandoah Valley …. supreme Union commander Ulysses S. Grant signed an order that the Shenandoah Valley should be made into a ‘desert’ and ‘all provisions and stock should be removed, and the people notified to move out.’ His troops would ‘eat out Virginia clear and clean as far as they go, so that crows flying over it for the balance of the season will have to carry their provender with them.'” (09/30/24)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2024/09/30/american-atrocity-remembering-the-shenandoah-burning/