This does not sound right!!! At the beginning it was said that all Union Officers were told to treat the Confederate Soldiers with respect!!! What about the Confederate POWs in Camp Douglass in Chicago??? In the last 2 years of the war, prisoners were starved!!! Not because of lack of food, the Union had plenty of supplies to feed the men!! Food was withheld on purpose by the camp commander General Jacob Ammen. As a result 4,000 of the 26,000 prisoners that came thru Camp Douglas died !!!! Well what about Andersonville in Georgia?? Wasn't it the same??? NO not the same!!! The Confederate in charge Henry Wert had no food at all, none for him or his soldiers & none for the Union Prisoners!!! When Sherman left Atlanta going east, Wert sent him a message saying he could have all the prisoners, but Sherman declined the offer. Sherman did not want to be bothered by all the sick men!!!! What was the result after the war was over? Jacob Ammen was given a war bonus and a medal for purposely starving confederate prisoners, and Henry Wert was hung by the union for not feeding the Union prisoners when there was nothing to feed them!!!!
@@stevehudspeth2997 By then, there was a lot of tit for tat going on. I suggest you look into the Fort Pillow Massacre and especially the Andersonville prison. The union was well aware of what _the south_ was doing to union prisoners. The parole system, working as late as Vicksburg, had broken down and largely because _the south_ would not recognize Union black soldiers as valid soldiers.
Yes you need to tell about reconstruction in the South after the war. General Lee said”if I knew how the South would be mistreated during Reconsttuction, then I would have kept fighting a gurella war in the mountains s of Virginia”.
Of course he said that those who surrendered should be treated with kindness and respect he just prosecuted a war for 4 years that he never had a declaration of war from Congress to prosecute in the first place they had already seceded from the union, something they had every right to do because it's a voluntary Union. No declaration of war he jailed 1300 + reporters during the war who were exposing the crimes that he was committing during the war. And closed a number of newspapers for printing the truth about him
No war crimes ever committed for the winning side. Someone, had to be tried in my opinion the Union was far too lienate with conferate officials. Especially those in government that established other means of oppression towards African Americans who built this country.
A declaration of war is not appropriate to suppress an insurrection. The pretended secession was illegal, as eventually held by the SCOTUS in Texas v. White
At last a view of the aftermath of the war from a southern side. A bitter aftermaths after a bitter war. I would love to suscribe but utube doesn’t offer the button. Thank you.
And of course it left much of the Southern cities in ruin because they were committing crimes because they were attacking civilians. Especially Sherman who is nothing more than a drunken tyrant
You mean that man that fought on when it was hopeless? Every soldier on both sides killed after Lincoln's re-election was a travesty and butchery that can be laid at Lee's feet. He should have told Davis to sue for peace -- by then, he could have made it stick. Instead he fought until his army was fighting not to win, but to get _food_ . It was days from starvation when it finally surrendered. Even three days before the end he elected to fight on -- for nothing. Fabled Appomattox was a sop to southern pride and part of the northern attempt at reconciliation. There is absolutely nothing admirable about R. E. Lee after November of 1864. And, was there any improvement in the peace treaty all that bloodshed achieved? Nope. Nothing. Lincoln already had set the terms and they were reasonably generous (certainly by historical standards -- insurrectionists that lose are often summarily shot). They could have got the same terms in November of 1864.
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This does not sound right!!! At the beginning it was said that all Union Officers were told to treat the Confederate Soldiers with respect!!! What about the Confederate POWs in Camp Douglass in Chicago??? In the last 2 years of the war, prisoners were starved!!! Not because of lack of food, the Union had plenty of supplies to feed the men!! Food was withheld on purpose by the camp commander General Jacob Ammen. As a result 4,000 of the 26,000 prisoners that came thru Camp Douglas died !!!! Well what about Andersonville in Georgia?? Wasn't it the same??? NO not the same!!! The Confederate in charge Henry Wert had no food at all, none for him or his soldiers & none for the Union Prisoners!!! When Sherman left Atlanta going east, Wert sent him a message saying he could have all the prisoners, but Sherman declined the offer. Sherman did not want to be bothered by all the sick men!!!! What was the result after the war was over? Jacob Ammen was given a war bonus and a medal for purposely starving confederate prisoners, and Henry Wert was hung by the union for not feeding the Union prisoners when there was nothing to feed them!!!!
The intentional withholding of food and medical attention was also done at Morton prison in Indiana and at Elmira prison in New York.
@@stevehudspeth2997 By then, there was a lot of tit for tat going on.
I suggest you look into the Fort Pillow Massacre and especially the Andersonville prison. The union was well aware of what _the south_ was doing to union prisoners.
The parole system, working as late as Vicksburg, had broken down and largely because _the south_ would not recognize Union black soldiers as valid soldiers.
Yes you need to tell about reconstruction in the South after the war. General Lee said”if I knew how the South would be mistreated during Reconsttuction, then I would have kept fighting a gurella war in the mountains s of Virginia”.
Of course he said that those who surrendered should be treated with kindness and respect he just prosecuted a war for 4 years that he never had a declaration of war from Congress to prosecute in the first place they had already seceded from the union, something they had every right to do because it's a voluntary Union. No declaration of war he jailed 1300 + reporters during the war who were exposing the crimes that he was committing during the war. And closed a number of newspapers for printing the truth about him
Well said.
No war crimes ever committed for the winning side. Someone, had to be tried in my opinion the Union was far too lienate with conferate officials. Especially those in government that established other means of oppression towards African Americans who built this country.
A declaration of war is not appropriate to suppress an insurrection. The pretended secession was illegal, as eventually held by the SCOTUS in Texas v. White
At last a view of the aftermath of the war from a southern side. A bitter aftermaths after a bitter war. I would love to suscribe but utube doesn’t offer the button. Thank you.
And of course it left much of the Southern cities in ruin because they were committing crimes because they were attacking civilians. Especially Sherman who is nothing more than a drunken tyrant
Davis was not tried for treason.
Unfortunately you didn’t go into the rest of reconstruction and the illegal passage of the 14 th ammunition.
What is it that makes the passage of the 14th Amendment illegal.
God bless Robert E. Lee…
You mean that man that fought on when it was hopeless? Every soldier on both sides killed after Lincoln's re-election was a travesty and butchery that can be laid at Lee's feet.
He should have told Davis to sue for peace -- by then, he could have made it stick.
Instead he fought until his army was fighting not to win, but to get _food_ . It was days from starvation when it finally surrendered. Even three days before the end he elected to fight on -- for nothing. Fabled Appomattox was a sop to southern pride and part of the northern attempt at reconciliation.
There is absolutely nothing admirable about R. E. Lee after November of 1864.
And, was there any improvement in the peace treaty all that bloodshed achieved? Nope. Nothing. Lincoln already had set the terms and they were reasonably generous (certainly by historical standards -- insurrectionists that lose are often summarily shot). They could have got the same terms in November of 1864.