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To: #3Fan
the rate of ANY crimes in the CSA was LOW, for at least 3 reasons:

1. CSA soldiers were on their own ground most of the time,

2.the CSA High Command PUNISHED criminals HARSELY,QUICKLY and PUBLICALLY,

3.AND, unlike in the northern armies, WAR CRIMES were NOT an essential part of the overall war plan.

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1,318 posted on 03/23/2004 9:01:23 AM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
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To: stand watie
the rate of ANY crimes in the CSA was LOW, for at least 3 reasons: 1. CSA soldiers were on their own ground most of the time,

And they harassed the populace and committed rape at the same rate of the Union armies it appears.

2.the CSA High Command PUNISHED criminals HARSELY,QUICKLY and PUBLICALLY,

Not true. Governers of some states sent letters complaining that no action was being taken against rapists and murderers in the south's armies against their own people.

3.AND, unlike in the northern armies, WAR CRIMES were NOT an essential part of the overall war plan.

Prove they were with the Union armies. (Attacking supplies is not a war crime as we clearly saw in WW2)

1,326 posted on 03/23/2004 9:14:32 AM PST by #3Fan (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
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