[Gianni]

But let's play your game for a while. I don't think that deliberately starving to death civilians is acceptable. Now show me where this was Union policy and I'll condemn that, too.

Ahh, we're playing your game again. It was not enough that it happened, but now it must be union policy.

It's probably easier to show it as a matter of policy anyway, thanks to your buddy:

"to the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better.."

"extermination, not of soldiers alone, that is the least of the trouble, but the people" of the South."

[Non-Sequitur]

It was not enough that it happened, but now it must be union policy.

Well, isn't that what you are saying? You're blaming Lincoln for it so you must be saying that it was government policy, unless you really want us to believe that the President lit individual fires or selected people to be starved to death.

And what about my second question, anyway?