[muawiyah]

Who said "raped"? Customs were different in that day and men much more restrained. After all, there was no cure for any of the better known STDs.

New Yorkers probably threw all care to the wind, but folks from the American Midwest had farms to take care of and injury to their reproductive capacity brought about by an indiscrete daliance meant economic disaster!

It is an error to project current beliefs and standards back on earlier generations who had different problems.

[Gunrunner2]

Yup. . .that's why there were hardly any "soiled doves" for the pleasure of those hard-working cowboys.

[Kellykoop]

Who said "raped"? Customs were different in that day and men much more restrained. After all, there was no cure for any of the better known STDs. New Yorkers probably threw all care to the wind, but folks from the American Midwest had farms to take care of and injury to their reproductive capacity brought about by an indiscrete daliance meant economic disaster! It is an error to project current beliefs and standards back on earlier generations who had different problems.

Wow! So there was no such thing as rape until recent times? It's good to know that our forefathers practiced safe sex.[/sarcasm]

Hate to break it to you, different customs or not, rapes did occur by soldiers during the Civil War. Women alone on a plantation were easy targets. The Union armies took over plantations even when people were living in them, then burned them down after they left. Why would you presume that they wouldn't get a little "somethin' somethin'" from the women left all alone?