I apologise,

I just over reacted to reading things that the Yankees did to Southern civilians.

I would also agree with David on the Hitler-Lincoln comparison.

Bad man?

Yes.

Equal to Hitler?

No.

It's just that the things that I read in the book "Official report relative to the conduct of federal troops in western Louisiana" shocked me to the point that I couldn't possibly think about any other comparison except Nazis when I read what the Yankees did in Lousiana.

It makes me wonder if it was like that elsewhere in the South.