FLORIDA IN THE EMPIRE I would like to add a little footnote to Tom DiLorenzo's recent treatment of General William Tecumseh Sherman and the Indians. This "footnote" is actually a "prequel" to Sherman's famous "march" through Georgia and South Carolina, during the late Unpleasantness, and his later Indian-fighting activities after that not very "civil" war. It is my duty as a patriotic Floridian to describe this part of the Sherman saga and, anyway, it helps us better understand his attitude toward warfare. I refer of course to Sherman's unhappy days in the subtropics, 1840–1841. Of course putting those days — … Continue reading Sherman in the Swamp