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Re: Fort Pillow Justification
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"The flaw in the opinions being expressed in this forum is that Southerners were morally superior to Northerners"

Nope I never said that.You cannot find where I said any such thing at any time.

It all staryed at this thread with this statement.

http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/nvcwmb/webbbs_config.pl?read=62096

If we hack away at which side was "more glorious" or "more honorable" than the other -- everybody loses. Both sides were "glorious"; both sides were "honorable"; and both sides committed atrocities. That's called "war".

To which I repiled---

http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/nvcwmb/webbbs_config.pl?read=62104

"Both sides were "glorious"; both sides were "honorable"; and both sides committed atrocities. That's called "war". "
That doesn't justify the rape, murder and kidnapping of thousands of old men women and children. It doesn't justify the diliberate torture of Confederate POWs.

GP

To which Sanders and later you seem to have picked up later and replied with half truths and incorrect information and trying to do you best to justify these actions. Yes and you even had to step down to insults. How grand.

GP

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