then don't bitch about Ft Pillow next time it pops up Mr Platitude.
First you'll have to point out the first time I bitched about it. The bitching about Pillow all seems to be on the Southron side, which get's all huffy at being reminded that the confederacy was loathe to taking black Union soldiers prisoner.
I'm constantly amazed at how you Southern supporters seem to think that in all recorded history only the Southern civilian population had the right not to suffer during the war that their leaders started. Sieges weren't new. Armies living off the land wasn't new. The fact that civilians die as a result of the war wasn't new. Yet you seem to think that somehow the Southern population should have been immune from all that. The fact of that matter is that I would defy you to name a single instance where a rebelling population suffered less during their war, and were punished more mildly for their actions after losing their rebellion than the Southern states were. My God, at the same time as the Vicksburg seige, China was finishing a civil war that had killed over 50 million. Eighty years later over one million civilians died in the siege at Leningrad. A handful of civilian dead in Vicksburg are nothing by comparison. Never in the course of human history has more complaining been done over less suffering than by the Southron supporters.