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Room Rate is for double occupancy. For each
additional person, there is a $25.00 person
If no 3rd or 4th person in rooms that have two beds, there is a $10.00 surcharge
for using both bed in the room.
Sherman was convinced that the
Confederacy's ability to wage further war had to be definitively crushed if
the fighting was to end. Therefore, he believed that the North had to employ
scorched earth tactics to destroy the economic and military backbone of the
enemy. Sherman's advance through
Georgia and the
Carolinas was characterized by widespread destruction of civilian supplies
and infrastructure, and sometimes accompanied by looting; although officially
forbidden, historians disagree as to how well this regulation was enforced.
Indeed, the point of Sherman's campaign was to destroy the will and ability of
the South to make war. The speed and efficiency of the destruction by Sherman's
army was remarkable. The practice of bending rails around trees, leaving behind
what came to be known as
Sherman's neckties, made repairs difficult.
Accusations that civilians
were targeted and war crimes
were committed on the march have made Sherman a controversial figure to this
day, particularly in the
South. Many Southerners reviled him for ransacking their homes and economy,
while slaves hailed him as a liberator. Neither of these claims tells the whole
truth. The damage done by Sherman was almost entirely limited to property
destruction—particularly property that could aid the Confederate war effort.
Sherman claimed he and his men had, in Georgia alone, caused $100,000,000 in
damages. The loss of life (especially civilian life) was remarkably minimal,
especially considering the size of his two-pronged army advance through the area
(60,000 plus troops, in an advance that was 60 miles wide and 300 miles long).
His army suffered approximately 100 dead and 700 wounded. The destruction of
property and infrastructure was always Sherman's goal and several of his
Southern contemporaries noted this fact and commented on it. The slave issue was
also not clear cut. Sherman disapproved of chattel slavery and his actions did
free many slaves from bondage.
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