[Texas Mulerider]

I am amused as a Southerner though that no one gave a rat’s ass how the Federals waged a total war down here on our own soil against kinsmen and yet we wail incessantly over silly shite like Abu Graib and insulting Islamopigs.

The media goes apoplectic with outrage whenever one of our missiles goes slightly off course and causes "collateral damage."

Must be amusing to the citizens of Vicksburg.

[wardaddy]

Yep.....those big mortars weren’t exactly discriminate.

I have several books of eyewitnesses on Vicksburg.

the radius of the explosive was fairly tight

a civilian would be walking down a street and boom...a direct hit and they were in a million pieces

hard to imagine that sort of thing in that era

some accounts of children playing outside the caves between rat meals and taking hits.....very sad.

course since their families probably owned slaves they had it coming /s