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To: Non-Sequitur

No. And that's the beauty of it all. It was right upon war's beginning. The court martial business began in July of 1861, and them Northern boys gave all their fellow soldiers entirely too much lee-way regarding atrocity committers. So when a Northern boy starts griping about atrocities, it's all much more horrendous than is fit to be heard...


736 posted on 06/20/2006 1:21:40 PM PDT by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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To: Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
The court martial business began in July of 1861, and them Northern boys gave all their fellow soldiers entirely too much lee-way regarding atrocity committers. So when a Northern boy starts griping about atrocities, it's all much more horrendous than is fit to be heard...

Enough is enough. The court martial could not have begun in July 1861 because the sack of Athens, Alabama didn't occur until May 1862. And far from the orgy of killing and raping that you, and the Kennedy boys, claim, the facts of the matter are quite different because unlike the Kennedy brothers others have studied what happened at Athens. One of them, Theordore Karamanski, wrote an article on the incident available here. Based on that, the actions of Colonel Turchin's men weren't all that much worse than, say, the activities of Lee's army in Pennsylvania in 1863 or Early's men in Chambersburg in 1864. But I don't expect you'll find any of that in the Kennedy's books.

738 posted on 06/20/2006 1:34:08 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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