[WhiskeyPapa]

I do not think a single rebel citizen was hanged by federal authorities for disloyal activities.

Speaking with forked tongue again, Walt? What about Beast Butler and the guy he hanged for taking down a US flag? William Mumford was his name.

I should have said civilian authorities. Butler's action was not cleared by Washington. If he had done that, Mumford probably would have been spared. Here's a letter of President Lincoln's:

Hon Secretary of War

Executive Mansion

Washington July 28, 1963

My Dear Sir,

A young son of the Senator Brown of Mississippi, not yet twenty, as I understand, was wounded, and made a prisoner at Gettysburg. His mother is sister of Mrs. P. R. Fendall, of this city. Mr. Fendall, on behalf of himself and family, asks that he and they may have charge of the boy, to cure him up, being responsible for his person and good behavior. Would it not be a grateful and graceful thing to let them have him?

Yours Truly,

A. Lincoln

You are putting up blue smoke and mirrors to hide southern atrocities that dwarfed anything ever done by the north.

Here are 40 names for you to note along with Mumford's. They are the loyal Texans hanged simply for being loyal to the old flag

Nathaniel, Clark, Wernell, Richard Martin, Grandpaw Burch, H.J. Esmond, Ward, Evans, Clem Woods, Wolsey, Manon, Leffel, A. B. McNeice, Wash Moirris, Wesley Morris, Thomas Floyd (shot), John Crisp, James Powers, Rama Dye, J. Dawson, Wiley, K. Morris, Barnes, Milburn, W. Anderson, Gross, Ward,, Dr. Johnson, Childs, Senir, Childs, Junior, Hampton, Locke, Foster, Fields, D. Anderson, D. Taylor, R. Manton, Jones, carmichael, Henry Cochran.

Walt

[rustbucket]

You are putting up blue smoke and mirrors to hide southern atrocities that dwarfed anything ever done by the north.

LOL. I simply called you on one of your overstatements.

[rustbucket]

I should have said civilian authorities. Butler's action was not cleared by Washington. If he had done that, Mumford probably would have been spared.

Are these the same Union civilian authorities who let prisoners of both sides die in prison?

[GOPcapitalist]

I should have said civilian authorities. Butler's action was not cleared by Washington. If he had done that, Mumford probably would have been spared.

As always, Walt, the criteria of your requests change after the fact. Reminds me of your old stunt on the issue of yankee rapists. First you denied that the rapes occurred and when evidence was presented that they did indeed, you responded by claiming they were less than 10 in number. That too was disproven, so you changed your criteria again and demanded that only the ones in Sherman's army counted. Sure enough, I posted a list from Sherman's army in addition to the other yankee armies -- I think it had some 60 named rapists in total -- and you fled the thread. Some things never change, I guess.