The orders were to take everything that they can, and burn and ruin everything that they can't take. The idea was to destroy infrastructure completely so as to weaken the southern population and the southern support for the war. They would burn farms and pillage everything leaving nothing standing.
Yes, the entirety of the first amendment talks of various freedoms, including the freedom of speech, in which you can criticize all you want.
<span>The First Amendment prohibits government from abridging "the right of the people peaceably to assemble." People are entitled to assemble and to speak and be heard, as long as they remain nonviolent. This basic freedom ensures that the spirit of the First Amendment survives and thrives even when the majority of citizens would rather suppress expression it finds offensive</span>
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same cartoon that was posted before with this question, its purpose is to "</span>support nativist anti-immigration sentiment" since it paints immigrants in a bad light.
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1776, and ended in 1865 because the passage of the thirteenth amendment.
