[mac_truck]

Trains were legitimate targets of war.

Not by non-uniformed combatants, unless you're willing to suffer the consequences.

[rustbucket]

[me]: Trains were legitimate targets of war.

[you]: Not by non-uniformed combatants, unless you're willing to suffer the consequences.

Tell that to non-uniformed combatants whose houses and cities had been burned and their food and valuables taken. War was certainly being made on them by the Union armies.