[stand watie]

NOPE. what GOOD generals DO is assure that civilan casualties are kept to a minimum, that civilan suffering is minimized and that the Laws of War are followed by their troops.

AND good generals assure that instances of rape,torture,robbery,plundering & especially MURDER are punished severely under the Law of War.

the punishment for these crimes was/is death by hanging or shooting by firing squad.

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[nolu chan]

Interesting report I came across:

LINK

THE QUESTION:
"Either the extermination of the Indian tribes by force or...."

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI

Saint Louis,.Mo., May 23, 1865.

Lieut. Gen. U. S. GRANT,
General-in- Chief:

Excerpt:

This question is now directly and barely presented. Either the extermination of the Indian tribes by force or some policy of supporting them by the General Government at places, where, deprived of arms and of the power to do injury or indulge their wandering habits, they can be subsisted and protected and subjected, under the most favorable circumstances, to all the influences of education and Christianity.

JNO. POPE,
Major-General, Commanding.

[#3Fan]

NOPE. what GOOD generals DO is assure that civilan casualties are kept to a minimum, that civilan suffering is minimized and that the Laws of War are followed by their troops.

Confederate troops raped Confederate women so are you saying that Lee was a bad general? Are you saying that Ike was a bad general since Germany was firebombed?

AND good generals assure that instances of rape,torture,robbery,plundering & especially MURDER are punished severely under the Law of War. the punishment for these crimes was/is death by hanging or shooting by firing squad.

Many Confederates were not punished when they raped confederate women. Was Lee a bad general then?