See? That’s my point. No difference between the Yankees and Confederates-both would steal the citizens blind. Except the Yankees were more likely to let their enemies keep their eyeballs.
In your post 1269 to Idabilly that I was responding to, you had said, "So are you going to dismiss this first hand account by strongly pro-Confederate Southern citizen Myra Inman of Cleveland, Tennessee? ... Do you dismiss this first-hand account?"
But, but, but ... in your post 1259 you said, "I would take accounts like that [Pepper's and Simm's in my post 1254] with a grain of salt. It is in the interest of a devastated and humiliated people with a questionable cause to cast the victor in the worst light possible." Pepper gave a first-hand account of what he saw. Simms was a witness to what had gone on in Columbia, and he also reported first-hand accounts of what happened from dozens of other witnesses.
Do you think the perpetrators of savagery were going to write down what they did?