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Miller was under arms, a legitimate POW.

...but innocent of any wrongdoing. Sherman had him executed in cold blood.

On the other hand, about 50 of Sherman's men, all legal combatants, were lynched during the march.

If they were legal combatants, they were legitimate military targets. And if they were committing crimes against civilians, which they were, they were legitimate targets of civilian self defense.

I do find it amusing though that, in your twisted world, Miller's cold blooded execution somehow "doesn't count" as an atrocity, as if his being a POW gave Sherman the right to murder him.

But when a bunch of Sherman sanctioned looters and arsonists get shot down while lighting flames to innocent people's houses, that somehow in some sick and twisted way counts as an "atrocity" in your mind.

Your double standards, Walt, are laughable.

If they were legal combatants, they were legitimate military targets.

I don't think your posts really need to be responded to any more. Surely the lurkers won't forgive your advocating murder.

You really sound as if you are trying to defend the sort of murder that the Waffen SS perpetrated on captured US troops in the 1944 Ardennes Offensive.

Walt

Miller was under arms, a legitimate POW.

...but innocent of any wrongdoing. Sherman had him executed in cold blood.

Before these executions, Sherman's men were subjected to bushwhacking and ambush by non-combatants. It was made very plain to authorities of the so-called CSA that if these actions outside the laws of war were not stopped, that reprisal executions would take place. More ambushes and bushwahcking followed. A few CSA POW's chosen by lot (or maybe just this one) were executed.

The bushwhacking stopped.

This was something done throughout the war.

There was a thread a few weeks ago venerating some CSA captain executed by federal forces.

Well, turns out he was executed for the cold blooded murder of 53 Union POW's at Saltville, VA. That puts a slightly different tinge on it, don't you think?

Many of those Union POW's were black.

Threatening, or executing, CSA prisoners in order to extort better treatment of US prisoners was a constant in 1863-65.

That is something the CSA cult mongers gloss over.

Walt