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To: central_va; rockrr
central_va: "We both know the entire "March to the Sea" and the South Carolina campaign were slash and burn operations."

Yes, as I said, burning and looting on both sides.
Confirmed reports of assaults on civilians: very few.

Indeed no doubt, a careful study would show more assaults on Southern Union loyalists by Confederates than Union Army assaults on Confederate civilians.

76 posted on 04/10/2012 3:13:11 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: BroJoeK
Yes, as I said, burning and looting on both sides.

That is a distortion of history and I won't let you get away with it. For example, during the invasion of PA Lee order his troops to PAY for everything they appropriated - no looting. There was no mis-conduct and it was not tolerated. The reason I know this is because I have researched history, both sides are not equally guilty. the difference is the South ordered ransacking to NOT to happen and when it did, which it did on a few occasions, it was punished. Any pillage incidents by the South was an anomaly and was not ordered or tolerated. The NORTH ordered pillaging and looting TO happen.

To tell the truth I wish the Southern Armies HAD acted like Sherman's bummers. The South played the gentleman to the North's rapist.

78 posted on 04/11/2012 3:57:17 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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