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OK. Now point to anyone,s attempt to aggrandize the event to support thier "cause"...
You won't find one, Joe. The whole thing is viewed as an effete joke.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
You do know that there are many accounts that Confederates, not the Union began infecting people with Smallpox...particularly troops of course with blankets, but I'm certain you could not contain it as such. Wonder how much collateral damage (ie outright KILLING OF CIVILIANS) came out of that preliminary form of bioterrorism. And how about Sherman's own account of Confederates poisoning ponds...hardly seems moral. The South has it's own guilt. That's probably much worse on the rules of war than Sherman's march. It certainly is in my opinion...of course, I may show some bias.
Bias?.... really? Could hardly even notice it reading your post. Confederates outright killing (Union?) civillians by covertly passing on all those extra infected blankets?
Bioterrorism? immoral? Much worse on the (scale of the) rules of war?
Was the non-inclusion of "racist" inadvertant or intentional. It's about the only talking point you left out.
'Course we all down here are just mouth-breathers with underbites sitting on the front porch drinkin likker and playing the banjo, so don't mind us. All this stuff just goes over our heads anyway.
The incident with the infected blankets was one of those discardable aberrations of some demented minds. Very much like the unfortunately successful assassination of Abe Lincoln.
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'Course we all down here are just mouth-breathers with underbites sitting on the front porch drinkin likker and playing the banjo, so don't mind us. All this stuff just goes over our heads anyway.
Slack-jawed mouth-breathers are people too. Cut the cadet some slack -- no pun intended.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
Course we all down here are just mouth-breathers with underbites sitting on the front porch drinkin likker and playing the banjo, so don't mind us. All this stuff just goes over our heads anyway.
"You forgot inbred. We're inbred too. Lessen you don't count first cousins."
The incident...was one of those...aberrations...Very much like the unfortunately successful assassination of Abe Lincoln.
Ole
Ole... talk about "most-unfortunate" incidents. Killing Lincoln to aid the Southern cause was certainly an ill-advised concept.
I sincerely believe that had Lincoln not been murdered and had guided the nation through reconstruction as he had visualized it, we wouldn't still be fighting the War today... and my Uncle wouldn't think his "Forget, H#ll" license plate was appropriate.
bIs it useful to divide violence against civilians and private propertly into these groups:
1. Disorganized: the unauthorized vandalism, theft, looting and assaults that occured around the armies, such as the Army of the Potomac(and others)_
2. Guerilla/feud: the nasty civilian/military clashes in Missouri and eastern Tennessee. Authorized, and unauthorized.
3. Attacks on shipping, such as the CSS Alabama on Northern shipping. Authorized.
4. "Covert" actions like the St. Albans raid and the attempt to burn down NYC.
5. Sherman's march, where the destruction was authorized and systematic, in pursuit of strategic goals. Sheridan's destruction of the Shenandoah Valley is the other great example.
6. The great cavalry raids.
Sherman's March was so big and so destructive its generally seen as an unique event, on a different order of magnitude as the others.
Interesting groups. On #2, you should include western Tennessee where local paybacks led to Ft. Pillow and the depredations of Col. Hurst (and his family in "Hurst country").
OK. Now point to anyone,s attempt to aggrandize the event to support thier "cause"...
I'm not sure why you asked. It was merely a case of Confederates being sent to rob and destroy, on orders from above. If you have a problem with Yankee soldiers busting into Atlanta banks, surely you must have a problem with this action as well.
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