Marakesh 𓅦 on Nostr: "Just three months after Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia ...

"Just three months after Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia General Sherman was put in charge of the “Military District of the Missouri,” which was all land west of the Mississippi River.  His orders were to essentially wage a campaign of genocide against the Plains Indians, which he did for the next twenty-five years, killing some 45,000 of them, women and children included, and placing the rest in concentration camps called “reservations.”  In 1891, the year of his death, Sherman expressed his regrets that his army did not kill every last Indian.  He is famously associated with the genocidal quip, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.”  He did all this, he once said, “to make way for the [government-subsidized] railroads,” of which he was a major stockholder."
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/08/thomas-dilorenzo/the-american-way-of-war-2/#:~:text=Just%20three%20months,a%20major%20stockholder.