Contrast these well documented atrocities (and many others too numerous to list) with the gentlemanly policies and behavior of the Confederate forces.Guess you never heard of Ft. Pillow, The Battle of the Crater, or Andersonville. Sh*t flowed both ways in the Civil War.
Let's compare apples, oranges and mangos. Ft. Pillow was a battle between soldiers; civilians were not involved. Many federal soldiers "surrendered" only to pick up a rifle and start shooting again. This is well documented. Finally, the Confederates began shooting them all. The Crater...again, armed combatants, not civilians. Andersonville...again, a POW camp, not civilians. Confederate guards received the same pitiful rations as the POWs and suffered equally of disease and malnutriton. Confederates tried to give the POWs up, without any exchange, but the feds refused. One trainload was taken to Savannah but the feds refused to take them. Unexplained and CRUEL. Andersonville was NOTHING compared to Camp Douglas in Chicago, Rock Island Illinois, Elmirah NY, Point Lookout MD and I could go on. In Chicago, food and blankets were plentiful, yet the federal guards allowed the Confederate POWs to die of exposure, illness and starvation. Torture was routine...prisoners were made to sit barebottomed in the snow for hours. Prisoners were made to straddle an 8 foot high sawhorse made of rough-hewn wood with weights tied on each foot...for hours and days. In Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago you'll find the largest mass grave in North America...almost 7000 Confederate POWs are buried in one hole...only 4300 are named, the others are "unknowns." Contrast that with Andersonville where they at least kept records and could name every soldier in an INDIVIDUAL Grave.
More on Camp Douglas & the ugly rock But I digress. Regenstein was talking about soldiers raping, murdering, looting and burning out civilians. In that regard, Chambersburg (where NO civilians were killed or raped), and various partisan raids in Illinois and Missouri....these were NOTHING compared to the systematic and APPROVED AT THE TOP war crimes that marked Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Virginia. Meridian MS, Columbia SC, Atlanta GA (all the way to Savannah), the Shenandoah Valley. Yes, "sh*t flowed both ways"...but Grant's "total war" policy has NO COMPARABLE EQUIVALENT by the Confederate forces. Your attempts to sarcastically change the subject do NOT withstand casual scrutiny. Regenstein is correct.