[EternalVigilance]

There's no doubt that Union and Confederate soldiers foraged, and yes, there was a lot of burning that went on from both sides. War is hell.

Your rape and murder charge is pretty thin, though.

Although, what Forrest did at Fort Pillow sure looks like murder to me.

And what Confederate Lieutenant-colonel James A. Keith did to suspected Union sympathizers in the Shelton Laurel Valley of North Carolina was murder too, not to speak of the fact that he tortured women and killed kids.

And then there were the anti-slavery, pro-Union Texans who were massacred on the Nueces River as they were fleeing martial law and forced conscription into a cause they didn't believe in.

Or, we could talk about the 24 unarmed captured Union troops who were executed at Centralia, MO by William T. Anderson and Jesse James.

Or what Quantrill did to Lawrence, KS, "to plunder, and destroy the town in retaliation for Osceola." They massacred pretty much the entire male population of the town, including boys. Or what they perpetrated at Fort Blair.

And that's without even bringing up the thousands of Union prisoners who died under the most horrific conditions at places like Andersonville.

[vetvetdoug]

Or the murdering of Confederate POW's by the 6th Tennessee Cavalry, USA.
Andersonville was bad but since the North had ample resources and men why was the percentage of deaths in POW camps in the North only 4% less that the Southern Prisons?
Or the rape of female freedwomen by Sherman's bummers through Georgia?
Ft. Pillow was investigated by the Federals and found that the refusal of the Union soldiers to surrender was a major reason for the large number of casualties. Even Sherman was on the board of inquiry.
Or the sending of black regiments because the commanders thought the blacks to be cheap into battles where the reason was to just have the enemy to expend ammunition like at Olustee or the Battle of the Crater?

The Union was stained with just as much racism as was the South and unbiased historians know this.

[Happy Rain]

Comparing any damage the South did to the atrocities of Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley or Sherman's March to the Sea is simply stupid.
Like comparing corporal to capital punishment.

One thing is for sure,like in all wars,there was a lot of mendacious propaganda churned out then and some of it is repeated now.
But the scars and shattered lives caused by the evil Yankee invaders will still be long remembered because it actually happened.

[Prussian Koenig]

“What Forrest did at Fort Pillow” Don’t go by the congressional testimony way back then or the myths that have grown up around that. It was a tangled mess at Fort Pillow that was not an intentional genocide of blacks by Forrest like the NAACP and others contend.

[TheCause]

Well stated, excellent response. Precisely the reason I have always focused my energies towards education of the American Revolution. Good vs. Evil was a little easier to distinguish. . . . God Save Our American States!