“Even while Confederate soldiers starved, they refused to take anything from the civilian populace.”
Good article. Howsomever, the author should read up on General Morgan and the Confederate Kentucky Cavalry(Alligator Horse) that he led. General Morgan led his troops into Indiana and Ohio. They helped themselves to civilian goods on more than one occasion.
They did not, however, conduct a scorched earth policy like Sheridan or Sherman.
Must have been a different group of reb soldiers than those in the vicinity of Cleveland, Tennessee on October 26, 1863. For in her diary entry of that day, the strongly pro-Confederate teenager Myra Inman complains:
"...We will have plenty of corn, potatoes, tallow, pumpkins and nearly enough meat to do us another year if we can only keep it from our soldiers. The soldiers are ruining Uncle Caswell, taking his corn burning his rails and killing his hogs."
If rebel soldiers did this to a prominent Confderate family, you have to wonder how they would treat the property of Yankees and Southern Uniuonists.