[Junior]

Because it was the same army created by Lincoln to fight the War Between the States. The rest of the article, however, focuses on Sherman, Sheridan and Grant and their actions against non-combatants in an effort to eradicate a people. You can hem and haw all you want, but it was the Federal Army which did these things. When Lee invaded the North, he specifically ordered his men not to despoil the land or the people therein. Sherman, however, believed in killing everyone: combatants and non-combatants alike. He burned several Southern cities, allowed his men to rape "contrabands" and pretty much acted like Atilla the Hun. And these attitudes carried over to the Indian Wars.

[Non-Sequitur]

Because it was the same army created by Lincoln to fight the War Between the States.

Nah, it's because Tommy can't write a think without working Lincoln into it somehow.

Because it was the same army created by Lincoln to fight the War Between the States.

The government treatment of Indians was deplorable before the rebellion and it was deplorable after the rebellion. But are you suggesting that it was all done against the wishes of the good people of the south or that they somehow tried to moderate the government treatment? That is nonsense. Any blood that the government has on its hands concerning the Indians is distributed just as freely below the Mason-Dixon line as above it.