in 1864 a group of union "filth in blue" came onto our family's small farm in NC,had a 4-day drunken orgy of rape, looting (they must have gotten little, as our family HAD little to steal, other than household furnishings,a few cattle/hogs/poultry, hay/silage, etc.),burning,torturing & finally murdering everyone on the farm. my family had at least 92 members = mostly elderly men,women & children under the age of 10YO, as the able-bodied men/older boys were "away with the forces", robbed/raped/looted/assaulted/tortured/murdered just because they were NON-white/poor/available to the "filth in blue that flowed down from the north".
Pretty good sized small farm. I'd be interested in knowing the specific location.
Sherman was still down in GA in 1864, so it wasn't his boys.
Eastern North Carolina was occupied for much of the war, along the coast, and there may have been some skirmishing in the mountains, but most of NC was free of the Yankee invader throughout 1864.
An atrocity like this would be one of the biggest in the entire war. I've been reading on the WBTS for 40 years, and I've yet to read of a single incident where large numbers of women, much less children, were murdered by either side's regular forces. Numerous men in the Union army were hanged for rape.
Guerrillas and deserters excepted from this generalization. But even at Lawrence the killers would tip their hats to the ladies before throwing their wounded husbands back into the burning house. John Brown was polite to the ladies at Ossawotamie while hacking their husbands and sons apart with swords.
This whole discussion reminds me of some of my discussions with Mormons. They are convinced that many thousands of Mormons were murdered by the mobocrats in MO and IL. But try to pin them down on a count, and it turns out the largest number killed at one time was 17, and it's tough to come up with a total of 100. Interestingly, as far as I can tell the Mormon Church has never compiled a documented list of those killed. Odd, if the results would support their claims of massive persecution and murder.
Meanwhile, the Mormons murdered over 200 gentiles at Mountain Meadows. This puts a serious dent in their ability to claim status as victims.
So I think they mentally "invent" past events that fully justify their present feelings of grievance. The real events "must" have happened and just been suppressed, or they wouldn't feel so angry. IOW, the anger creates the atrocities, rather than the atrocities causing the anger.
A similar mechanism can be seen in some minorities today. When they don't face the racial antagonism they expect, they stage events to justify their own anger.
the SOLE reason that you haven't read of the MANY hundreds of atrocities committed by the "FILTH IN BLUE" is that the WINNERS write the "history".
there are MANY sources for the MANY WAR CRIMES & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, which were committed by the DYs. BUT you have to WANT to find them.
MOST DYs (and most Americans for that matter) do NOT want to know the TRUTH;comforting LIES are "more their speed".
free dixie,sw
An atrocity like this would be one of the biggest in the entire war. By way of comparison, we do know that 13 men and boys were butchered by rebel forces in North Carolina's Shelton Laurel Massacre.
Now suppose that 92 men, women, and children had been massacred by Union troops.
The Democrats, former rebels, controlled the South for generations.
Wouldn't they have played up this massacre, or at least made a monument to it?
No? I guess they really must have hated Indians -- even fake Indians and imaginary Cherokees.
Really, swattie just makes this nonsense up and repeats it so often that he comes to believe it.
But you can understand why. He craves the attention, and apparently, he gets it.