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The sobering and brutal consequences of the Civil War off the battlefield are revealed in this examination of atrocities committed against civilians. Rationale for the Union's "hard war" and the political ramifications of such a war set the foundation for Walter Cisco's enlightening research.
In a series of concise and compelling chapters, Cisco chronicles the "St. Louis Massacre," where Federal authorities proceeded to impose a reign of terror and dictatorship in Missouri. He tells of the events leading to, and the suffering caused by, the Federal decree that forced twenty thousand Missouri civilians into exile. The arrests of civilians, the suppression of civil liberties, theft, and murder to "restore the Union" in Tennessee are also examined.
Women and children, black and white, were robbed, brutalized, and left homeless in Sherman's infamous raid through Georgia. Torture and rape were not uncommon. In South Carolina, homes, farms, churches, and whole towns disappeared in flames. Civilians received no mercy at the hands of the Union invaders. Earrings were ripped from bleeding ears, graves were robbed, and towns were pillaged. Wherever Federal troops encountered Southern Blacks, whether free or slave, they were robbed, brutalized, belittled, kidnapped, threatened, tortured, and sometimes raped or killed by their blue-clad "liberators."
Carefully researched, largely from primary sources, the book includes notes and illustrations. This untold story will interest anyone exploring an alternative perspective on this period in American history. http://www.amazon.com/War-Crimes-Aga.../dp/158980466X
In his book Battle Cry for Freedom: The Civil War Era (p. 619), Lincoln cultist James McPherson wrote that some 50,000 Southern civilians perished during the War to Prevent Southern Independence. Others have made estimates that are much higher. The only way this could be possible is that if thousands were murdered in cold blood by the U.S. Army. This is a shocking claim, and it will be shocking to most because such statistics say little about the actual horror of mass murder at the hands of the state. Moreover, the state always has its court historians and paid propagandists who put such statistics "in proper perspective," so that they will not alarm us....
War Crimes Against Southern Civilians is a must-read for anyone who wants to educate themselves about Sherman’s "March to the Sea." (For the cartoonish version, see the History Channel rendition.).... http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo123.html
When Lew Rockwell gets realistic, I'll consider reading his recommendations; meanwhile, I'm still trying to choke my way through the Gospel According to the Saints Kennedy.
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
I will read it, but I won't waste money on it. I'll wait for it to come out in our public library system.
Can't wait to see the sources that have never before been provided up until this book.
As a matter of fact, I am still waiting to be told where all the mass graves are of murdered Southern civilians during Sherman's March.
To me it's like UFOs and Black Helicopters, when I see them, I'll believe them.
With little or no anticipation,
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Wars happen; civilians suffer. Please tell me of any war in which this has not happened. Confederate and Southern citizens hurt by the actions of soldiers and war; Unionists and Union citizens hurt by the actions of soldiers and war. To say there were atrocities committed- fine, it is the truth. It will always be so. But to think only one side commits atrocites and the other is blameless is pure and utter foolishness. To say one side commits atrocities and remain silent about the other side is foolishness and hypocrisy.
__________________ 'It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag'
WBTS has one of the lowest loss of civilian life in all of US wars, indeed it is used as a example in lectures of a clean war, in which wars between ideologicly different partys are comperd, the safest place to be is to be acivilian when two democratic societys goto war, the least safe of course being poltical extremes.
Heres the course work literature, http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/ if your a data junky, the data sets are an extremly valubale source of intrest, and i would recommend anyone to this site for a good and insightful read.
__________________
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote."
Benjamin Franklin, 1759
While we have disagreed on other areas of the Civil War, on this one we are in complete agreement.
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
Sincerely,
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Apparently Cisco has written a number of books -- all of which, I might add might well be endorsed by the League of the South. Minor books from minor publishers. An exception might be his biography of Wade Hampton, if you wade (pun intended) past his heroic rescue of SC from the corruption and thefts of reconstruction governors.
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
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