Recent content by w1994

I wasn't shooting for that, so I certainly missed it.

It wasn't total war at first but it gradually became that way. At first it was a miltary contest between two armies. It was a traditional, standard issue, conventional war, at first. As the war went on, the hatred and bigotry amongst the Northern leaders for Southerners, grew till they just lost...

Our Civil War did not meet the definition criteria of a Civil War but the term stuck anyway. A Civil War is when two seperate factions fight for total control of the country. The South wanted control of their region of the country, not the whole country. The South was not trying to put Jeff...

Yes, it was illegal. Haven't you heard of the Nuremberg trials? They started right away in November of 1945. Japan surrendered in September of 1945. The Nuremberg trials started immediately at the end of WWII. It dealt exclusively with the war crimes of the suriving Nazi leaders that had not...

What did I hope? :)

It's interesting that the first law protecting slavery and actually legalizing (the cradle to casket variety) it, came from those great folks in Yankeedum. The ones that brought forth the Pilgrims in 1620. Yes those nice folks of Massachusetts protected a masters right to own slaves in 1641...

Response: If Lincoln was bound by moral law, he wore those bindings rather losely. It was fotunate for him that he could exploit the huge void of laws pertaining to war crimes. I'm sure it was an inspiration to him to take advantage of such a consequence free situation. He wouldn't get by with...

Response: Actually, it was the combination of a piece of real estate that offered an abundance of opportunities, coupled with people desperate enough to work themselves half to death and clever enough to figure out how to make it pay off. Work ethic mostly.

Response: Yes, it is called the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. It was put together by the Northern government during the Civil War. There are records galore of the many impropreities carried out by men of the Union Army. I'll look some up for you with page numbers and the whole...