Checkmate, Lincolnites! — Season 1, Episode 5: Was GENERAL SHERMAN a WAR CRIMINAL?!?!?!?!
Comedy, War & Politics, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Talk • 33 min • 1 season, 10 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
Episode 5 of Checkmate, Lincolnites! Debunking the Lost Cause myths surrounding William Tecumseh Sherman during the American Civil War, including the Atlanta Campaign, the March to the Sea, and the burning of Columbia – and tackling the "slavery would have gone away on its own" thing while we're at it. Surprisingly, Johnny Reb gets in one or two really solid points.
About Checkmate, Lincolnites!
Civil War web series debunking the tenets of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Confederate DESTROYS Yankee with FACTS and LOGIC
- E2Did Confederate Soldiers FIGHT for SLAVERY?!
- E3TARRIFS and TAXES: The REAL Cause of the CIVIL WAR?!
- E4Was it REALLY the WAR of NORTHERN AGGRESSION?!?!?!
- E6Were There Really BLACK CONFEDERATES???!!!
- E7Did the CONFEDERACY Have BETTER GENERALS?!?!?!
- E8Wasn’t it KINDA About STATES’ RIGHTS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
- E9Is Civil War History Being REWRITTEN?!?!?!?!?!
- E10THE CORNERSTONE OF JOHNNY REB