War Crimes Against Southern Civilians

[larry_cockerham]

I don't see how Missouri could have remained neutral. If these girls' gg grannies were any comparison, the men of Missouri had plenty to fight for. The heck with slavery.

[whitworth]

are the call of those, when an army cannot defend it's territory, and the population remains at war, bad things happen.
Producing foodstuffs and forage for the Confederate horses and mules, and shipped hundred of miles by rail, was war materiel. Grant destroyed them in Mississippi, Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, Sherman in Georgia.

One of the true realizations from the period was referring to a Kentucky unit of Confederates as the Orphan Brigade.

By the end of 1862, there were Confederate soldiers from areas, that would never be controlled by the Confederate States. Lots of Confederate orphans by the end of that year.

Apparently the Confederate founding fathers never saw the results, a little over a year after secession.
The Confederacy had given a bleak hope to many, that a new nation could exist.

War was too modern to just affect the military combatants.

[larry_cockerham]

Down here we called it devastation. Thanks for the post.