[DoodleDawg]

I didn’t say “laws”. There weren’t formal agreements between countries a la the Geneva Conventions forbidding it at the time. There was instead custom which had arisen among western nations to not deliberately target civilians. That was later codified in the Geneva Conventions.

Sure you did. Reply 118: "The indiscriminate bombing of Southern cities, which was outlawed by international law at the time, killed hundreds, if not thousands of slaves."

What international laws were you referring to?

[FLT-bird]

Sure you did. Reply 118: “The indiscriminate bombing of Southern cities, which was outlawed by international law at the time, killed hundreds, if not thousands of slaves.”

What international laws were you referring to?

Mea culpa. I should have said international convention at the time. There was not yet a formal international treaty codifying the laws of war.