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 Posted: Sat 14:37, 03 Aug 2013 Post subject: 'We Have Received Provocation Enough'_8 |
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| first chance we get.InMcLaws' view, the seizure of "even the men, women & children" wasboth justified as moral retribution and as an intentional escalation oftactics. McLaws' corps commander was Longstreet, the most senior of Lee's officers and effectively the second-in-command of the Army ofNorthern Virginia. Longstreet acknowledged the practice of seizing civilians and accommodated it. Insending orders to George Pickett, whose corps was bringing up the rearof the army, Longstreet, writing through his adjutant,http://jimmychoooutlets.yolasite.com/, G. Moxley Sorrel,sent word on July 1—the day the two armies first engaged each other—to move his troops toward Gettysburg. In closing he added, "the captured contrabands had better be brought along with you for further disposition.""Further disposition" here refers to imprisonment, auction,enslavement, and (often) severe punishment at the hands of aformer-and-once-again master.McLaws' letter and the thirteen words closing Longstreet'sorder aredamning, in that they |
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