[GOPcapitalist]

Post your documentation. Hold it up to the scrutiny of history.

WHile it is great to post such material, I have no doubt that you will ignore it just as you ignored the extensive documentation, a full transcript among it, of the atrocities at the hands of Robert Milroy. Your bar changes whenever somebody introduces proof that meets your previous standard and confronts you with an undesired fact. It's all word games.

[capitan_refugio]

I appreciate your transcript of Milroy's order. You have gone the extra mile, more than some of the other posters of your persuasion are willing to do.

The bottom line is that the order itself does not provide any of the background of why it was made. There are legitimate reasons, such as those I mentioned, for all of his actions, as defined in the Articles of War.

While I understand your outrage, if find it to be more emotional than analytical. Many of the charges of "atrocities" are without a firm foundation, and we usually find when some sort of "documentation" is posted, it's from somebody's granddaddy's journal written 40 years after the fact (or conversely, in some obscure archive that nobody can easily access).

[capitan_refugio]

You buddy, NC, posted this in his #1498: "In consequence of certain robberies which have been committed on Union citizens of this county by bands of guerrillas ..."

Bands of guerrillas. Hmmmm. Maybe Milroy had a point afterall.