War Crimes Against Southern Civilians



From: yakimakanutt@yahoo.com

http://www.amazon.com/War-Crimes-Against-Southern-Civilians/sim/158980466X/2

War Crimes Against Southern Civilians

I can’t help but laugh every time I hear the word "reconstruction"
used in association with Iraq. What makes them think they can "reconstruct"
Iraq?
They’ve been trying to do to the South for over 140 years and it ain’t
worked yet.

"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. Styled
the "Black Flag" campaign, the hard line was agreed to by Lincoln
in a council with his generals in 1864, when he gave permission to wage unlimited
war against civilians, including women and children. 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"

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country
is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis
of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."

General Douglas MacArthur, Speech, May 15, 1951

"All that the South has ever desired was the Union as established by our
forefathers should be preserved and that the government as originally organized
should be administered in purity and truth."

-Robert E. Lee, General, CSA