savagery in war only makes for hatred among the vanquished;that savagery is why we southrons after almost 150 years are still desirous of LIBERTY from the northern oppressors.
FREE the south NOW,sw
"Wheeler's command drove the Federal advance from SandersvilIe after a brief skirmish and settled in the town for the night. This rare, if temporary, success inspired a Sandersville lynch mob to murder some of Wheeler's captives. A mob appeared near midnight —probably a band of Confederate troops—pushed aside the frightened guards, carried the Federal prisoners into a nearby field, and shot them down."
--"Sherman's March, p. 75, by Burke Davis
There's a lot more. I'll try to get to it again. I posted a lot of data from this book once before.
Walt