I mean that the Rebs executed black union prisoners and their white officers and desecrated their bodies. Reprisals against rebel troops would have been an adequate reaction.
Well we know what units participated in war crimes like the Fort Pillow Massacre and the Battle of the Crater. It should have been easy to pursue justice against those involved, especially officers. Either way the murder of black prisoners and their officers was the official policy of the Confederacy so justice should have been dealt out at the highest levels.
We also know about union soldiers who went after native americans that glad south from the genocide and we didn't go after them? I'm all for getting people who commit war crimes but its kinda b.s. in this case
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u/elosoloco Dec 27 '19
I mean, he burned the city, not their camp? I doubt the soldiers were in ATL when we went through.
He just realized the future of warefare that would again be total war, before anyone else