[rustbucket]

Your point is well taken, but some of the incidents you report are subjects of contention.

George Pickett ordered twenty-two North Carolinians captured in Union uniforms hanged for desertion.

Twenty seven of the captured Union troops were reportedly deserters from the Confederate Army. They were tried by court-marshal and 22 of them were subsequently hung.

In 1863, the Feds were paying 300 dollars each to poor NC farmers to enlist, a lot of money in those days.

[Non-Sequitur]

Those men were sworn, uniformed soldiers serving in Union army. They deserved to be treated as POWs, not hanged for imagined crimes. What if the Union army hanged officers and men who had been serving in the United States Army at the outbreak of the war but had chosen to join the rebelllion? Would that have been justified?

In all there were about 195,000 southern men who fought for the North, about half of them white. While there were units like 1st Arkansas Cavalry and 1st Alabama Cavalry and 1st North Carolina Infantry (where the murdered POWs were from) in the Union army I don't recall coming across a 1st Ohio or a 1st New York Cavalry or a 1st Vermont Artillery in the confederate army. Maybe that's because the rebellion didn't enjoy the overwhelming popular support sothron supporters like to believe it did.

[lentulusgracchus]

In 1863, the Feds were paying 300 dollars each to poor NC farmers to enlist, a lot of money in those days.

They were paying the same to Irishmen everywhere. I blush (okay, very faintly) to admit that two of my great-great uncles, who were very fond of "potations", took the bounty money offered them in Indianapolis by the Army to "stand in" for draftees -- then absquatulated, in Mark Twain's term. The Army came looking for them, but they hid out successfully. A second cousin once removed, belonging to a branch of the family that moved South in the 1890's to participate in the then-current boomlet, has studio photos of both of these reprobates, taken when they were elderly. Their necks don't look appreciably longer than normal.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Twenty seven of the captured Union troops were reportedly deserters from the Confederate Army. They were tried by court-marshal and 22 of them were subsequently hung.

I wonder if they were "galvanized", forced to enlist in the so-called CSA forces or face being hung.

You say reportedly. Reported by whom?

Walt