Posted on 11/04/2022 9:58:12 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
The Martyrs Monument of Midway, Ky., honors four Confederates publicly executed by the Union one hundred fifty years ago today.
A brutally contested frontier zone between North and South, Kentucky at this point was under martial law, governed by General Stephen Burbridge — but nearly anarchic on the ground in some areas.
In an effort to quell the activities of Confederate guerrillas-slash-outlaws, Burbridge issued a still-notorious directive called Order 59: Citing the “rapid increase in this district of lawless bands of armed men,” the order threatened to expel Southern sympathizers and seize their property. Moreover, it warned: “Whenever an unarmed Union citizen is murdered, four guerrillas will be selected from the prison and publicly shot to death at the most convenient place near the scene of the outrages.”...
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That was one brutal war.
About the only thing that ended in 1865 was the shooting.
For the most part.
very true
> No one likes to think about their ‘good guy’ killing captured or surrendered enemy soldiers. But it happens like it or not is happens. <
A friend of the family was in the US Army during WW II. He served in the Italian campaign. And one day he told us this story. It bothers me still.
It was early in 1945. The Germans were retreating northward towards Germany.. The Allies pursued them. Our friend’s unit took no prisoners. Any German who surrendered was shot.
Our friend explained. If we took prisoners, we would have to detach men to escort them to the rear. They would weaken our unit, and perhaps fatally so. So we shot the prisoners instead.
Gen. Sherman was right. War is hell.
War is hell, and this sort of thing happens more than many understand.
Paratroopers often found themselves in the same situation. Out numbered scattered behind enemy lines shorthanded you just could not expanded the man power to guard prisoners and you could just let them go
Well, some truly evil people are killed off in war. I am comfortable enough to count that as a good thing.
Seem to remember a similar thing in occupied Czechoslovakia ? but a whole town.
Seem to remember a similar thing in occupied Czechoslovakia ? but a whole town.
It is pleasant to note that Burbage had to flee Kentucky after the war and live the rest of his life in New York City keeping one eye looking over his shoulder. Even Union partisans in the Bluegrass State hated him, and then Lincoln still didn’t carry the state in 1864. Burbage and his reign of terror is a good part of why , as the saying goes, Kentucky joined the Confederacy after Appomattox.
And until very recently our western sterilized version of history claimed only the axis shot POWs.
For example ww2…
I think many secrets exist. For example the how advanced was the German development of the a-bomb?
Why did we abandon Chang Kai Shek and the nationalists at the end when the civil war with communist Mao started in earnest?
Did Roosevelt know of the coming attack on Pearl Harbor?
Why was the drunk enlisted man who was driving the stolen truck that hit Patton released without any charges or even a thorough investigation? Why was Patton not sent to a 3rd Army hospital (his army) and instead sent to an old hospital that was nearly empty and barely guarded (almost as if to allow his assassination)?
What really happened to the German POWs in the huge concentration camps after the war? (Other losses)
Did MacArthur really get a horde of Gold from Japanese general Yamishita in the PI in 1945 that he used to pay off Japanese crime lords to keep peace post war?
And more….are they all true, of course not. do secrets exist…of course they do.
The wrong side ‘ won’ in 1865.
Deo Vindice
Sic Semper Tyranus
For the most part.
And those over whom the thing that ended in 1865 was fought have continued the shooting.
Of each other, for the most part.
Lidice
Thx
I like to explore the secrets that are only secrets because the victors want them to be secrets... But anyone with a library card knows the secrets!
Like:
The “Emancipation Proclamation” only freed SOUTHERN slaves: The last slaves in the North or South were freed in New Jersey, after the war.
As for Patton, I never had heard he was assassinated in the hospital! He was a great hero but after some thought I imagine he might have been the wrong sort of expansionist man to try to manage what became the cold war. Wish he had had more license and fuel in the Second!
But - I may be wrong. I love Patton!
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