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To: WVMnteer
He did none of those things.

In fact, his tactics generally led to surrender without the loss of life.

The Washington Post article, (Linked elsewhere in this thread) says that a letter from a man who served there, claims that they did indeed drop pig blood on a terrorist and bury the pig with him.

We either have to conclude that the man who wrote the letter back in the early 1900 made it up, or that it really happened.

I don't see why a man would make up such a story, so I am going to classify it as "true."

50 posted on 08/17/2017 1:41:02 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

I would love to hear your opinions on Ft. Pillow.

One guy tells a story and it’s the truth? I bet you have met hundreds of guys who were going to be starting quarterback in high school, but the coach was out to get him.


53 posted on 08/17/2017 1:47:49 PM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: DiogenesLamp

Please, read the article with comprehension.

It’s NOT the Wash. Post, and no, it does NOT come from c1900.

“hang a Moro chieftain by the heels over an open grave, kill a pig, and then drop the Moro into the grave with the bloody animal,”

This was the letter written by 1 man 60 years later, NOT contemporaneously. (And yes, it would be amazing only 1 man witnessed it; why not more corroboration?)

It may imply but does not say the chief was buried, but he did have to mingle with dead bloody pig.


64 posted on 08/17/2017 3:41:10 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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