[GOPcapitalist]

Here's a transcript of one of the shortest of several Death Lists drawn up and implemented by the yankee general Robert Milroy in early 1865. The longest one has 58 names on it. Regardless of what you think about the yankee war cause, only a Stalinist or other tyrant could read something like this and call it acceptable, legally just, or excusable under either the laws of our nation or the eyes of God.

Head Quarters Dept. N.&C. B.R.
Tullahoma, Tenn

Sir:

You will proceed to the residences of the persons herein named and deal with them in accordance with the following instructions:

In all cases where the residences of the persons are ordered to be destroyed, you will observe the following previous to setting them on fire:

You will first search their houses and premises to see if they have any articles belonging to the U.S Gov. or that are contraband of War, which you will bring away in
case any are found; also all or any of the folllowing articles that may be found belonging to the aforesaid Persons.

First: All Hosres, Hogs, Sheep, Cattle, and any other animals or articles of whatever description that may be valuable to the U.S. Gov. especially those that are
valuable to the Quartermaster, Comisary, and Hospital Departments.

Second: All stoves and stove pipes of whatever description and all Kitchen utensils, Queens ware, beds, bedding, knives, forks etc; also chairs, sofas, sociables,
lounges, and everything of the charecter of househotel furniture.

Third: All window sash and glass, looking glasses, carpets etc.

Fourth: Every article of househotel furniture which you do not bring with you must be destroyed or burned with the house.

Fifth: All barns, stables, smoke houses, or any other out houses of any description whatsoever or any buildings or articles that could probably be of use or benefit as
comfort to Rebels or Bushwhackers, their friends or any person siding abetting or sympathising with Rebels Bushwackers etc or which could be used for subsistance
for man or beast will be destroyed or burned.

Sixth: All animals, forage or other articles of value brought in by you will be turned over to Lieut. J. W. Raymond A.A.L.M this stuff to be subject to the order of
Major Genl. Milroy to be disposed of as he may think proper; taking a receipt therefor from Lieut Raymond.

Seventh: The Train acompanying will be subject to your orders together with all the persons connected with it whether soldiers or citizens and you will cause any of
them, who may be guilty of committing depredations upon legal citizens or their Protperty to be arrested and you will not yourself or suffer those under your
command to commit any trespass or do any damage to persons or property except those specified in this order.

Eighth: You will burn the houses of the following named persons, take any of the articles named above that they may have, together with all forage and grains
belonging to them that you can bring away which may be useful to the U.S. Gov. for military purposes or otherwise and will give no receipts of any kind whatever.

Names                                        Dist                            Residences
1. Joseph How                                                             1/2 mile South of Hillsboro one mile west of the Hillsboro and Winchester road.
2. Shadrack McBride                  11                             On the Pelham & Hillsboro road.
3. Thomas L. Gunn                      11                             2 miles South of Hillsboro on Bean's Creek
4. Washington Riley                                                      Hillsboro
5. Pleasant Nevill                         12                             On the Pelham & Tullahoma road on Bean's Creek; (crossed out: Some neighborhood as the above named)
6. L. B. Austell                             12                            Same neighborhood as the above named.
7. John W. Jones                                                          3 miles South West of Hillsboro and one mile West of the Hillsboro and Winchester road.

Ninth: The following persons will be shot in addition to suffering in the manner prescribed in Paragraph Eighth.

Names                                        Dist                            Residences
                                                   Coffee Co.
1. Leroy Moore                                                            At Heffers mill on Bradley Creek

                                                   Franklin Co.
2. Thomas Sanders                      8                                On Elk River
3. William Sanders                       8                                Same neighborhood as the above. (search this house for arms before shooting him)
4. Louis Anderson                       8                                Same neighborhood as the above

By Command of Maj. Genl. Milroy
Thos. Worthington
Lieut. 106 O of I & A.D.C

SOURCE: National Archives of the United States, Union Provost Marshall Records, Microfilm group 416, Roll 46

[capitan_refugio]

"Art. 15.
Military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies, and of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of the war; it allows of the capturing of every armed enemy, and every enemy of importance to the hostile government, or of peculiar danger to the captor; it allows of all destruction of property, and obstruction of the ways and channels of traffic, travel, or communication, and of all withholding of sustenance or means of life from the enemy; of the appropriation of whatever an enemy's country affords necessary for the subsistence and safety of the army, and of such deception as does not involve the breaking of good faith either positively pledged, regarding agreements entered into during the war, or supposed by the modern law of war to exist. Men who take up arms against one another in public war do not cease on this account to be moral beings, responsible to one another and to God."

"Art. 17.
War is not carried on by arms alone. It is lawful to starve the hostile belligerent, armed or unarmed, so that it leads to the speedier subjection of the enemy.

"Art. 21.
The citizen or native of a hostile country is thus an enemy, as one of the constituents of the hostile state or nation, and as such is subjected to the hardships of the war.

"Art. 27.
The law of war can no more wholly dispense with retaliation than can the law of nations, of which it is a branch. Yet civilized nations acknowledge retaliation as the sternest feature of war. A reckless enemy often leaves to his opponent no other means of securing himself against the repetition of barbarous outrage

"Art. 28.
Retaliation will, therefore, never be resorted to as a measure of mere revenge, but only as a means of protective retribution, and moreover, cautiously and unavoidably; that is to say, retaliation shall only be resorted to after careful inquiry into the real occurrence, and the character of the misdeeds that may demand retribution. Unjust or inconsiderate retaliation removes the belligerents farther and farther from the mitigating rules of regular war, and by rapid steps leads them nearer to the internecine wars of savages."

I don't see anything not covers under the Articles of War. Sounds like they identified some of the guerrillas ("bushwackers").