Sherman analyzes the social and regional order. Major General WT Sherman wrote a letter to Commander in Chief HW Halleck regarding his views on Southern politics and society. The letter to Halleck was written on September 17, 1863 from Vicksburg, Mississippi. WT Sherman explains that the social order needs to be rebuilt. He organized the order into four parts: planters, small farmers/mechanics/merchants/workers, southern unionists and young people from the South. Sherman first addresses the planters. They constitute the upper class of all ranks. They are rich, educated and friendly. Some renounced slaves while others remained conservative. According to Sherman, “in some districts they are bitter as gall, and have renounced slaves, plantations, and all their services in the armies of the Confederacy; while, in others, they are conservative” (3). It explains how this class can be managed. He states, “I know we can manage this class, but only through action” (Sherman, 3). “The arguments are exhausted and the words have lost their usual meaning” (Sherman, 3). According to him, it is better to replace the planter class than to rebuild it if it resembles Europe, but he has a different idea. It allows planters to recover their plantations to start fresh. Sherman expresses: “If our country were like Europe, full of people, I would say it would be easier to replace this class than to rebuild it, subordinate to the politics of the nation; but as this is not the case, it is better to allow planters, barring individual exceptions, to gradually recover their plantations, to hire any kind of labor and to adapt to the new order of things” (4). He ultimately decides that having a civilian government is a better choice to not worry about the past, present or future. They are a larger class but they are very dangerous. The young people are “splendid horsemen, first-rate shooters and totally reckless” (Sherman, 6). Sherman offers to share food with them. Furthermore, he states that they must either kill the young people or employ them to have peace. Considering these points, Sherman classified people from upper to lower classes and expressed the problems of each class. Sherman's social analysis of the regional order fails to accommodate the content of his readings. Sherman's main goal was to elaborate on the problems faced by the people listed in their rankings. He did not discuss any information about slavery or the impact of black people. In the other readings, they mainly discuss the treatment of black people. The concept of how slavery was managed. Finally, the idea of ​​how families and slave owners viewed loyalty.