Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
RULES
No bigotry. The Union, or at least the part of the Union WE support, fought AGAINST that shite. We are anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic, and in general anti-bigot here, even if not all the lads in Union blue uniforms were.
No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.
Follow all Lemmy.world rules
Explanation: German-Americans, coming from a country without a recent tradition of slavery, and many of whom were, at the time, exiles from the liberal and socialist revolutions (there was infighting involved) of '48, were one of the more ardently anti-slavery immigrant groups in the US, and volunteered in large numbers for the Union cause. We go to fight mit Sigel!