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That was after Fort Pillow, was it not? In any case, the war in the mountains was truly brutal, and truly a civil war. Crucifixtions were common, though it was usually done with ropes through the heels. As they say, what goes around comes around.

That kind of ignorant nonsense makes the Sherman look like a Saint.

That was after Fort Pillow, was it not?

Some of it was. Other acts of yankee brutality there came long before the severely overplayed battle of Fort Pillow.

In any case, the war in the mountains was truly brutal, and truly a civil war. Crucifixtions were common, though it was usually done with ropes through the heels.

Probably. Another common tactic of Gen. Milroy was to hang civilians with a slip knot on doorframes. He would let them struggle in agony while ordering his soldiers to give tugs on their legs and make the death more painful. There was also a case where one of the yankee leaders and his band mutilated and tortured a suspected confederate. Perhaps the most blatant is documented in Milroy's own military orders. It is a 50+ person murder list that instructs soldiers to track down southern civilians for execution and list the bizarre and cruel manners in which those executions are to be carried out. One of them orders the men to stage an "accidental shooting" of the mother of a confederate soldier while they were supposedly searching her house. Another orders them to take some civilians prisoner and hand them over to a local unionist informant who would then be permitted to torture them to death. It was apparently the unionists' "reward" for spying on his neighbors.