The extent to which mainstream "historians" have downplayed Northern war crimes is its own can of worms, no different IMO from Turkish "historians" who downplay what Turkey did to Armenians. It's also kind of amazing in a way, we're long past believing in American exceptionalism as a culture...except for the civil war, where we're lead to believe that Union soldiers acted like gentleman.
Hell, I remember watching a video by that fag Attun-Shei Films or something, before I realized what a giant proglodyte faggot he is (he wasn't always so blatant about it). It was about how during the occupation of New Orleans, the Union general in charge issued an order that Union soldiers are allowed to "address respectable women as prostitutes," as a response to said women antagonizing the troops.
He spun it as just an example of people in the olden days being silly about etiquette, seeing as how this caused an uproar that even reached the UK. When anyone who's historically literate knows that permitting military men to treat a group of women as prostitutes is code for giving your men the green light to rape any broad that gets too uppity. But of course mentioning that bit of subtext would reveal that Southerners weren't just angry about losing the slaves that they never even owned in the first place.
The extent to which mainstream "historians" have downplayed Northern war crimes is its own can of worms, no different IMO from Turkish "historians" who downplay what Turkey did to Armenians. It's also kind of amazing in a way, we're long past believing in American exceptionalism as a culture...except for the civil war, where we're lead to believe that Union soldiers acted like gentleman.
Hell, I remember watching a video by that fag Attun-Shei Films or something, before I realized what a giant proglodyte faggot he is (he wasn't always so blatant about it). It was about how during the occupation of New Orleans, the Union general in charge issued an order that Union soldiers are allowed to "address respectable women as prostitutes," as a response to said women antagonizing the troops.
He spun it as just an example of people in the olden days being silly about etiquette, seeing as how this caused an uproar that even reached the UK. When anyone who's historically literate knows that permitting military men to treat a group of women as prostitutes is code for giving your men the green light to rape any broad that gets too uppity. But of course mentioning that bit of subtext would reveal that Southerners weren't just angry about losing the slaves that they never even owned in the first place.