I’ve often wondered if that happened to any of my wife’s Georgia relatives. Her parents were pretty quiet about specifics of what happened.
Back in WBTS times, I think they sometimes referred to rape in veiled terms, perhaps to protect the ladies involved. If you’ll remember, I once posted about some women who were badly burned by Federal troops in Arkansas in an attempt to find where they might have hidden money and other valuables. One sentence in the report struck me as possibly indicating rape: “Notwithstanding these outrages [the burnings], that of still deeper infamy is now the suffering pangs at heart of some of the helpless ladies of Johnson.”
Bump. Many on the other side are of the opinion that the account must use the word "rape", or else it must have been tiddly-winks they were playing.
When "Beast" Butler ordered that the ladies of New Orleans showed contempt for yankees that she was to be 'treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation', he meant to treat them as prostitutes, without recourse to legal remedies for their rape.