Thomas F. Harney

[Wild Bill]

re post #129

Spoken like a true 20th-21st century lawyer, John. Laws of war? GO No. 100, AGO (1863) were Union laws. You assume that the Confederacy did not exist as an independent government. They never approved of Lincoln's laws. Interesting thing about GO 100. I did a look into the Freedmen's Bureau officers in Texas after the war and they never gave evidence of ever seeing GO 100 even though it was included in their packet of rules and regulations. When it comes down to it there are no laws of war. These are forms used by the winning side to wreak vengeance upon the losers. GO 100 was a Union order to justify the war from their point of view, nothing more.

BTW The crack about Arizona land was my convoluted way of dismissing your arguments as your usual legalistic bovine scatology. I ought to know. I am a renowned bovin game scatologist myself. When the shooting starts the first casualty is law. There are no rules of engagement as American lawyers impose on our men and women at war. It is a good way to lose the whole ball game.