War Crimes Against Southern Civilians

[Borderruffian]

Originally Posted by Ozark Iron John

Hey unionblue! I thought of another little game they use to play out here on the Mo-Kan border. "Tain't in the Well".

Some southern minded man would turn up on a Union League list somewhere's and before long, he'd just up an dissapear. Wouldn't nobody know where he'd run off too and he'd never come back home.

Then about three or four weeks later, some other southern family'd find there well poisoned or if not poisoned, certainly not drinkable anymore. There'd be no reason why that water'd turn bad cept' for that first fella, "Tain't in the Well".

Gotta say I've heard this one in family legend anyway no hard sources.

That after the "order" when families were being moved off their farms any pro southern farmer who resisted was shoot and dumped in the well.

It served two purposes got rid of Secesh and poisoned the water for "The Boys".

Given the dispositions in Missouri.....could be.

[Will Posey]

Winding up in the well happened to one of my wife's relatives, in Georgia after the war.

[unionblue]

Will Posey,

By accident or by war crime?

Unionblue

[Will Posey]

Originally Posted by unionblue

Will Posey,

By accident or by war crime?

Unionblue

No accident. It was Southern business, no Yankees involved. The war was over, so there was no war crime
but the event stemmed from the war days.

In another instance, that did occur during the war, another relative deserted the Confederate army and returned home. The local Home Guard pulled him out of his barn and executed him. Then they went to his house and forced his wife to prepare them a meal.

So, some Southerners dealt quite harshly with their own.

[Ozark Iron John]

Originally Posted by Borderruffian

It served two purposes got rid of Secesh and poisoned the water for "The Boys".

You've gotta have ....

...what's that word? Provanance. You can't just say something here Borderruffian, you've got to have verifiable chain of custody type proof when you want to put down union blue soldiers. Anything less is just heresay and everyone knows rebels lie. Without provanance, it just didn't happen. Ain't that right, unionblue?

[ole]

Border told of a story--a family legend. He didn't insist it was a fact; nor did he stretch it to include all the Yankees all the time. He doesn't need provenance when he doesn't present it as fact. I agree with him: it could be true. It may not be, but it sounds like something that certainly might have happened.

Not all family legends have no basis in fact.

ole

[fieldinghurst]

Originally Posted by trice

Yes, Hurst had 5 brothers. Fielding and four others voted against secession; the other supported it.

Here's a website dedicated to Hurst Nation: http://hurstnation.com/ Not sure of anything else about it.

Regards,
Tim

Actually, only one brother, David, sided with the Confederacy. Apparently his son was caught by the Union and Fielding brokered his release. David later suspected that the money he paid never got any further than Fielding.

[fieldinghurst]

I stopped by and visited Col. Hurst's home in Purdy, TN recently. Ironically, it is the last 19th century structure standing in McNairy, County. See pictures here taken by historian Hunter Cashdollar.

[samgrant]

Sorry that I have not the patience to go all the way back on this thread, so my words may be redundant.

One might legitimately title a thread "War Crimes Commited by Southern Civilians", but that would not be correct either unless we can have an agreement as to what was lawful or not.

I don't find any Court of Law making judgements here.

[ole]

Fieldinghurst:

I'm aware there was a Purdy, somewhere west of Pittsburg Landing. Have not been able to find it on a map. Could you place it, for me, on a map? We're not talking Selmer, are we? What crossroads in today's Tennessee, qualifies as Purdy? And is it the same place where the Purdy road went?

ole