Union soldiers "wreaked havoc on the South,...were very cruel even to the children, destroying food , furniture, and possessions of families, threatening children with violence, even sexual assault, often in front of other family members, ...brandishing whips and pistols, ...tearing up school books, taking away blankets...spitting in preserves...pouring ketchup on paintings..."
Union depredations were also committed against slave children, with soldiers demanding that they sing and dance..."
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Well, I should have known a book about the South written by a co-director of women's and gender studies would be biased.......The tone is slanted, but done in a way that the average (illiterate) person in the US would not realize. On page eight she states "African Americans , of course, were Unionists in Confederate territory" Of course, that is not 100% true for free blacks and some slaves. Then on page 14 she states "Free people of color.........even owning slaves!" Just amazing. But I kept reading until page 45 where she states "the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 granted liberty to slaves in Union-occupied Confederate territory." This book is too well researched for this to be an error, so I shall call this an outright lie enabling her to continue worshiping at the altar of the Tyrant Lincoln.
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(The exclusions covered the territory that the Yankees controlled! BT)
http://37thtexas.org/html/Emancipator.html
"The Great Proclamation" (1960), Commager, Henry Steele; "Mr. Lincoln's Proclamation" (1964), Donovan, Frank; "The Emancipation Proclamation" (1964), Franklin, John Hope, ed.
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION:
Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:
"That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northhampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued."
NOTE - Slavery was NOT abolished in one Confederate (Tennessee) and four Union states (Maryland, Delaware. Kentucky, West Virginia, and Missouri).
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Emancipation Proclamation, Russia's Minister/Washington
"According to this act, the protection of the government is offered as a premium to the owners of slaves who will remain faithful to the Union flag, and emancipation is not accorded to Negroes except as a punishment imposed upon their masters. In brief, emancipation is used by President Lincoln as a military weapon to subdue his enemies and is not at all a proclamation of human liberty."
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