“I have a question, how many prisoners or innocent civilians did the rebels murder during the war?”
Probably very few since they were fighting a defensive war on their own ground. But you might want to consider the Union’s war against civilians, the burning of farms and cities, the destruction of crops and livestock, the rapes and looting and famine left in the wake of the Union Army.
Bruce Catton, in his ‘northern’ trilogy of the Civil War, begins by relating the tale of a local man who liked to celebrate his service in the Union Army. Catton was greatly impressed as a child, but much less so as an adult when he learned that this man’s job had been to burn out the farmers of the Shenandoah Valley. This was done on the premise that they would feed the Confederate Army, but in fact the farmers of the Shenandoah were mostly Germans who were unionists. Too bad for them, they got an early lesson in Big Government as practiced by the Lincoln Administration.
“Probably very few”
12,900 union prisoners died at Andersonville thanks to the inhuman treatment by the rebels.
13 innocent civilians were tortured and murdered by the rebels in Madison County, North Carolina in January 1863.
“the burning of farms and cities, the destruction of crops and livestock, the rapes and looting and famine left in the wake of the Union Army.”
The Union Army ordered the destruction of property not civilian lives; that is a legitimate military tactic, if we follow your argument to it’s conclusion then the US (and almost every military on earth) is guilty of “war crimes” for destroying property.
Sadly, if a state attempted to leave this WONDERFUL federal government we have in place today, the Lincoln/Yankee lovers would side with obama. It’s a waste of time to argue.
After my blood boils a little and I get into it with one of these guys and I realize their first post contains the word “rebel”, I know I’m talking to a piece of hardwood. Our Founding Fathers, including my g-g-g-g-g-grandfather who signed the Mecklenberg Resolution and was given 1,000 acres for serving in the NC Militia at Cowpens, were rebels. Those fighting for the confederacy were not rebels. They were “leavers”.