SHOULD NORTHERN STATES AND DESCENDANTS OF UNION SOLDIERS PAY REPERATIONS TO SOUTHERN STATES, CITIES, AND CITIZENS?
[+] serious ballot by texsue57 ACTIVE Tue Apr 25, 06 – Sun Jan 18, 09 As the end of the Civil War approached, many Confederate cities were placed under siege and methodically shelled and Federal armies marched through and laid waste to vast stretches of Southern countryside. This scorched earth, hard form of warfare was practiced increasingly in the Shenandoah Valley, northern Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Richmond, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Charleston and many other Southern cities suffered large scale destruction as the war continued. The plundering of Southern farms and towns often coincided with Union soldiers raping or murdering local citizens. When they left, these areas often experienced accute food shortages which causes further devastation. Should Northern states and descendants of Union soldiers have to pay reperations to the descendants of the victims of these campaigns?
