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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
I am sorry, for someone to support a regime whose policy was to execute all Black prisoners of war to call someone who opposed that regime a butcher is laughable. Imagine if the Federal forces executed all white Confederate prisoners of war, that would be butchery.

Actually the official policy was to sell the black soldiers into slavery and shoot the white officers. The unofficial policy was to execute all black prisoners of war.

19 posted on 08/10/2010 2:55:30 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Didn't say the ‘official’ policy. In any case it would probably been difficult for a black prisoner of war to get life insurance. Do you know if there were any black prisoner of war at Andersonville, or the other southern POW camps?
21 posted on 08/10/2010 3:19:24 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
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