- Joined
- Apr 4, 2017
- Location
- Denver, CO
When Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Confederate President Jefferson Davis responded by threatening all black soldiers serving in the United State army with enslavement and threatening the white officers leading the African American military units with execution.
Subsequently, Confederate naval raiders captured and burned unarmed merchant ships and whaling ships. Although technically not piracy, the impact of these actions was indistinguishable from privateering.
Also, Jubal Early extracted a ransom from Frederick, MD and authorized the burning of Chambersburg, PA.
Jefferson Davis taunted William T. Sherman and Sherman's army by asserting that the army's retreat from Atlanta in 1864 would end with the same result as Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.
Confederates operating POW camps did not provide adequate care for the prisoners they were caring for, but neglected to consider that when these prisoners were exchanged their physical condition was going to obvious and could be recorded by photographs.
Finally, Nathan Bedford Forrest dared the Yankee cavalrymen to come south in 1865 to match Yankee sabres with Confederate rifles. General Forrest temporarily lost track of the fact General James Wilson's men were armed with Spencer repeating rifles. Wilson had already been in charge of shredding Jubal Early's army in the Shenandoah and collapsing the flank of Hood's army at Nashville, TN in December of 1864. Wilson took up the challenge and came south with 12,000 friends and the people of Alabama were not happy to seem them there.
Although the Confederates may have had understandable motivations for these actions, these acts were profound escalations of the violence.
It is reasonable to suggest that the whirlwind that swept through the south after November 9, 1864 was largely of their own making.
Subsequently, Confederate naval raiders captured and burned unarmed merchant ships and whaling ships. Although technically not piracy, the impact of these actions was indistinguishable from privateering.
Also, Jubal Early extracted a ransom from Frederick, MD and authorized the burning of Chambersburg, PA.
Jefferson Davis taunted William T. Sherman and Sherman's army by asserting that the army's retreat from Atlanta in 1864 would end with the same result as Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.
Confederates operating POW camps did not provide adequate care for the prisoners they were caring for, but neglected to consider that when these prisoners were exchanged their physical condition was going to obvious and could be recorded by photographs.
Finally, Nathan Bedford Forrest dared the Yankee cavalrymen to come south in 1865 to match Yankee sabres with Confederate rifles. General Forrest temporarily lost track of the fact General James Wilson's men were armed with Spencer repeating rifles. Wilson had already been in charge of shredding Jubal Early's army in the Shenandoah and collapsing the flank of Hood's army at Nashville, TN in December of 1864. Wilson took up the challenge and came south with 12,000 friends and the people of Alabama were not happy to seem them there.
Although the Confederates may have had understandable motivations for these actions, these acts were profound escalations of the violence.
It is reasonable to suggest that the whirlwind that swept through the south after November 9, 1864 was largely of their own making.
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