Shameful Past: Sheridan’s Merciless Devastation of the Shenandoah Valley

Collateral Damage, hundreds of thousands die.

LewRockwell.com., James Bovard: This is the 150th anniversary of one of the Civil War’s most destructive and controversial campaigns. Union Gen. Philip Sheridan unleashed a hundred mile swath of flames in the Shenandoah Valley that left vast numbers of civilians tottering towards starvation.  Unfortunately, the burning of the Shenandoah Valley has been largely forgotten, foreshadowing how subsequent brutal military operations  would also vanish into the Memory Hole. Story is here.