Bwahahahaha! I don't - I love this republic.
To say the United States Soldiers waged war on innocent women and children is treason.
Get a grip. Treason is defined as a citizen waging war on the US or giving aid and comfort to her enemies. No Confederate was ever found guilty of treason. And the US DID wage war on innocent women and children, the Official Records are replete with examples of yankee brutalities. Mumford was executed for simply taking down a US flag. A Confederate scout had his eyes gouged out; civilians were burned alive in their beds; the Chief Justice of Georgia was hung in an attempt to obtain his gold; thousands of Southern women - white and black - were raped by yankees; entire towns were destroyed; the women and children of Roswell and Manchester GA were enslaved and sent North; some 100 Million (billions today) in jewelry, silver and gold and other valuables was stolen from civilians and sent North; thousands of acres of land were burned, homes destroyed, crops burnt, livestock shot; numerous civilians, some of them old men, shot by the military for no reason. Lincoln's henchmen arrested priests that refused to pray for Lincoln, federal troops prevented fair elections.
The founders believed 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.'
Yankees fought against that principle.
War is tough, both sides were guilty of crimes. I have a contemporary account of some reb criminals in the wake of Wheeler's cavalry gouging the eyes out of a live Unionist As an added touch the brave defender of Dixie is said to have presented the eyeballs to his bloodthirsty mother as a trophy.
the women and children of Roswell and Manchester GA were enslaved and sent North
And I bet they were very good slaves too. For there is one Bible verse that all true southerners knew and believed in, the one that said SERVANTS OBEY YOUR MASTERS. And we know slavery is not that bad at all so nobody should complain about the fate of these women. They should have been thankful to be transported to a more advanced and prosperous civilization. In fact, what Lee called "stern discipline" might serve, after a few hundred years of slavery for these women and their descendants, to make these southerners worthy of citizenship in the more advanced North.
If the enslaved women had escaped and made their way back to their old home, I hope Georgia would have been ready to deliver up these fugitive slaves back to Ohio under the Fugitive Slave Acts. As you know, fugitive slave return was part of the Constitution and one of the reasons the Confederates tried to leave the Union.