[Restorer]

It's quite well established that southern troops captured escaped slaves during all their advances, and they weren't always all that scrupulous about their legal status. Guven the ideology they were upholding, it made perfect sense to do so.

This is not an example of PC South-bashing, although there has been a lot of that going around in recent years. There were some very ugly realities about the southern side of the war, as well as of the northern side. As with all wars.

[Michael.SF.]

This is not an example of PC South-bashing.

I would beg to differ. That is exactly what it is.

I am willing to concede that southern troops rounded up Blacks, both free and escaped. This probably occurred rarely since 90% of the war was fought in the south. But the article itself is contradictory, since it says they were kidnapped and then they say it was a 'pogram.'

Since a pogram refers to a massacre or a holocaust type of mass killing, they would not have been doing both.

Why would the south expend energy and resources to kill in mass Blacks? Especially since to the south, the blacks were property from which they could make a profit.

[bruin66]

Wonder how many can translate your tag line...