Someone wins, someone loses. Someone is the conqueror and someone conquered. I am sorry, but I find all this incredulous and so short-sighted that I have trouble bringing a logical response to such an illogical request. Since receiving the fax I have wondered if TLS's position is a response to some requesting money for atrocities suffered by slaves at the hands of slaveholders. That is equally incredulous.
History is littered with the evil doings of men.
He nearly died and took a full year to recover. His son was wounded in the shoulder during Sherman's March to the Sea. And if we are going to talk about the evil one man did on another, let's talk about Andersonville or Johnson Island. Movies may glorify war but reality tells us there is nothing worse we can do as nations than to release armies on each other. Bad things will happen, on both sides, and that is the plain, cold, hard truth.