BUT sadly (for YOU) the US Army's Investigators of the USPOWC found NO credible evidence among ANY of the TORRENT of FALSE ACCUSATIONS made against any CSA service-member, which was NOT punished harshly by the CSA command structure.
otoh, there were MANY UNPUNISHED union criminals, who not only escaped punishment, but whose WAR CRIMES the DAMNyankee "high command" INTENTIONALLY chose NOT to even investigate (much less punish).
the HECATOMB against my family was reported to the Union Provost Marshal. NOTHING was DONE. (further as i have said on these threads before, GENERALLY nothing at all was done to the "criminals in blue" for their crimes. thus what was done to MY family was anything BUT unique!!!)
as Dr Everett Slaverns said to me once: all armies throughout history have numbered criminals within their ranks. in the union military service those crimes were not only NOT punished, but were frequently ENCOURAGED as a "means to an end". (that is the BEST 'working definition" that i've heard for : CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY & CRIMES AGAINST PEACE.)
free dixie,sw
Maybe because they weren't clear on just where it was supposed to have happened.
Rally to the Battle Flag! POST #119REF: the massmurders, rapes, pillaging and arson committed against MY family:the dates were April 16-18, 1864, Lake Corinth, Mississippi-the culprits were UNIFORMED "bummers" of the US Army- NO ACTION was ever taken against the participants by the army's high command-a private letter from my greatr-great great-grandaunt (Cordelia Elizabeth Mary Bankhead-Knieff- her diary of the war years is in the collections of the University of Southern Mississippi) indicates that a report of the atrocities committed was reported to the nearest yankee headquarters with no results, as misbehavior of troops against civilians was both expected and accepted as NORMAL behavior toward the "rebel filth".