in point of fact, the newly freed slaves would have followed ATTILA the HUN. they just wanted to leave the place of their servitude (who could have blamed them???).
in MANY THOUSANDS of cases they were raped, assaulted, tortured & all too frequently MURDERED by their "rescuers". as i said TOO MANY were "freed from LIFE" by the "filth in blue that came down from the north".
and FRANKLY, NOBODY in the DY high command made ANY serious attempt to punish the criminals. instead, they "turned their faces away" and/or covered up the war crimes.( in the case of the slaughter of my family, NOBODY in the union army cared a DAMN, as the raped/tortured/robbed/MURDERED were just "poor injuns" and to quote lincoln, "red savages without souls,who must be driven from our dominions or EXTERMINATED to the last one".)
sadly, i must tell you that the WAR CRIMES committed on the members of my family were FAR from unique! such CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY were COMMONPLACE!
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So were the war crimes committed on the members of my family, but they were committed not during the war, but during the so called peace, during which the Southern Gentlemen raped, murdered, tortured as they pleased.
Who is the filth?