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To: soakncider
Well if an army burns your crops, kills your cattle, rapes your women, and destroys your cities, it is safe to assume...

Oh, you have the judgment of God also, huh. The arrogance of the ignorant neo-confederate knows no bounds.

There were very few rapes BTW, and it wasn't official policy as he atrocities of Fort Pillow were. The rest of what you mentioned is what happens when you start a war.

73 posted on 01/17/2016 8:50:34 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: Partisan Gunslinger

Yes rapes were few, but the burning of crops and destruction of cities and towns certainly was official policy of the Lincoln administration.

Fort Pillow was an action against a military force by a military force, and the confederate generals in command were exonerated by the union army.

Read this excerpt provided by rockrr: http://civilwarhome.com/forrestpillow.htm

Please don’t resort to name-calling.


77 posted on 01/17/2016 9:03:15 PM PST by soakncider ("The two enemies of the people are criminals and government"...Thomas Jefferson)
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