the damnyankee army's CRIMINAL MINORITY committed tens of thousands of such war crimes.
FEW of those crimes were ever punished, by the damnyankee high command (i have posted several times before with full documentation, the order of a yankee officer at Point Lookout that "unwarranted shootings of prisoners after this date are prohibited. such persons as may continue to do such will be fined the sum of one dollar."), thus i must assume that the high command either did not care and/or possibly encouraged such criminal behaviors against helpless POWs & civilians.
free dixie,sw
Not so! IF the object of the seizure (or its destruction) is directly related to supporting the enemy's war effort, it is a legitimate war objective. I made that proviso in the earlier post.
Certainly rape is impermissible. However, you have yet to make the case that thousands of POW's were murdered in the camps. Both in the south and in the north, camp conditions were not good, and many, if not most of the deaths in those camps were due to illness or disease. My ancestor who was captured at Fort Donelson, TN, acquired dysentery (common enough in both armies, not to mention POW camps!), and after he was paroled/traded, he was discharged because of the lingering illness, and lived to tell the tale. Had he died in captivity, I don't think I would have considered him "murdered."
On the other hand, didn't the term "dead line" originate at Andersonville?