The record shows that the rebels took the lead in atrocity. Shall we start tallying up the murdered Union men at Gainesville, Tx, Lawrence, KS and Saltville, VA again?
Walt
I assume you are talking about the Union men involved in a plot to murder Confederate men, women, and children and take over Confederate arsenals in North Texas? ...the Unionists who contacted the Union army to plan action against the Confederates (a crime punishable by death under the Confederate Articles of War)? We've talked about them before.
The great bulk of the Unionists arrested on this occasion were released. Simply being a Unionist was not a crime. Murder, like the Unionists did to the prosecutor during the trial, was a crime.
A mob of Confederate sympathizers, enraged by the threats against their lives openly bragged about by some of the convicted Union terrorists/guerrillas, took matters into their own hands and hung a bunch of them, mostly those who had been shown in court testimony to be members of the plot. (Don't mess with Texas, Walt.)
A few were hung who may not have been connected to the plot. Others were convicted and hung by the court, not the mob.
You keep avoiding the question. Would you have starved Confederate prisoners to death like some of the 600 were starved to death?