In his blog below, Anthony asks that we imagine the horror of a foreign enemy destroying half of Chicago, a third of L.A., etc. Well, there’s no need to imagine; the U.S. Army once destroyed even larger portions of some of its own cities. Here’s how Shelby Foote describes the burning of Columbia, South Carolina by Sherman in The Civil War, vol. 3, pp. 794-795 (keep in mind, this took place after the Confederates evacuated and the city was populated only by women, children, and elderly men): “Columbia was burning, and burning fiercely, in more than a dozen places simultaneously. … Continue reading Lincoln’s Curtis LeMay