blacks, latinos,jews, poor whites, "muddy-coloured people" (mixed bloods, like me for instance) & indians suffered disportionately from these fiends in blue.
had this not been so, MOST "persons of colour" might well have sat out the war. instead, the WAR CRIMES of the damnyankee horde pushed MANY THOUSANDS of black freemen, and many THOUSANDS of other NON-whites, (& not a few women!) into the CSA's military forces.
even an poor,illiterate Indian "dirt-farmer",like my gr-gr-grandfather, understood fighting the SCUM that burned his house & barn, drove off his livestock, abused/raped/tortured his wife & other family women and then MURDERED at least 92 of his relatives in coldblood.
this 4-day orgy of WAR CRIMES & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY propelled him into the 4th MO Partisan Rangers, where he became a FEARED gurreilla fighter for the south.
according to our tribal records, he was STILL killing damnyankee officers in July of 1865!
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