It seems to me that all those activities you spoke of you label as 'war crimes' when you claim the Yankees did it. If that is true then they would be war crimes regardless of who did it. So either they are war crimes or they are not. If they are then you are advocating war crimes by the confederacy. If they are not then what are you bellyaching about?
when one side starts committing war crimes and NO punitive action by a third party has been taken to stop the war crimes, according to the international law of war, the other side may do "similar acts" as a "payback". not pretty (and perhaps immoral), but acceptable.
the response, according to the Law of Land Warfare, published by the USAJAGC, must be "porportionate to the acts previously committed by the opposing force".
BTW, i didn't say that i APPROVED of such acts in revenge.
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