I hold that US soldiers, fighting for an established nation, were bound to do their duty, or suffer the consequences.
The southern criminals, fighting for no cause but their own power, had no legal authority to enforce their criminal conspiracy.
The southern criminals treated southern soldiers who left the "cause" the same way that they treated US soldiers fighting in uniforms, if most of the soldiers were black. They murdered the men who decided to no longer support their criminal conspiracy, in cold blood. Yes, that is what it was, Murder.
Grant was able to parole southern soldiers at Vicksburg, with no exchange. They were, as he put it, mighty tired of the war.
Of course, some violated their parole, but probably fewer than the number of US soldiers that would have been necessary to guard the rebels. That magnanimous act occured at about the same time that US soldiers were being denied simple things like water, at Andersonville.
The Commander there did everything he could, he said. Everything except let them go, as Grant let southern soldiers go. Hell is full of people like him.
You know who you are.
your base premises are false, thus everything you post is therefore, FALSE!
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It's language like yours that perpetuates hate and discontent. You're saying that my great-great grandfather, who was killed in battle, was a criminal and deserved to die. Is it any wonder that Southerners despise damnyankees?
It's adults like you that perpetuates revisionist history on the youth of America cultivating a new generation of ignorance.
You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.