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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: steve harris who wrote (339555)6/6/2007 12:04:43 AM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) of 1571937
 
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>Tap does praise the Committee for its investigation of the Fort Pillow massacre, in which black troops were not allowed to surrender, and for its expose of the harsh condition of Union prisoners.

It very much follows with Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon's directive regarding black Union soldierst, "No people... could tolerate... the use of savages. We ought never to be inconvenienced with such prisoners... Summary execution must be inflicted on those taken."

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