Think about this.
Over 100 Union POW's were murdered at Saltville, VA.
Here's a tidbit from that:
Saltville, Virginia - 10/2/64 - Champ Ferguson and Brigadier General Felix Robertson executed over 100 wounded members of the 5th USCT Cavalry, the morning after the battle there. (They essentially drove their wagons across the fields where the wounded USCT were, crushing them under their wheels.) While Ferguson was captured some months later, and tried and executed for this (and other) crimes, Robertson lived until 1928, the last surviving Confederate general.
That's a good one.
But what about the 2-300 Union POW's murdered at Fort Pillow, TN in April, 1864?
Or the 40 loyal Texans hanged at Gainesville, TX, in October, 1862?
Or the 22 loyal North Carolinians hanged by George Pickett?
Or the 184 men and boys murdered at Lawrence, KS?
Keeping count?
Or what about this:
"Headquarters Department Trans-Mississippi,Shreveport, La, June 13, 1863
Maj. Gen. R. Taylor Commanding District of Louisiana:
GENERAL:
In answer to the communication of Brigadier-General Hebert, ofthe 6th instant, asking what disposition should be made of negro slaves taken in arms, I am directed by Lieutenant-General Smith to say no quarter should be shown them. If taken prisoners, however, they should be turned over to the executive authorities of the States in which they may be captured, in obedience to the proclamation of the President of the Confederate States, sections 3 and 4, published to the Army in General Orders, No. 111, Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, series of 1862. Should negroes thus taken be executed by the military authorities capturing them it would certainly provoke retaliation. By turning them over to the civil authorities to be tried by the laws of the state, no exception can be taken.I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. S. Anderson"
The so-called CSA took the lead in atrocities.
The rebels never acted honorably, they always acted dishonorably.
Walt