http://www.thetracyfamilyhistory.net/C8_Order_Number_11.htm BTW Lincoln approved this Order. In Plain Speaking, "an Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman," the former President tells what happened: "Post" being none other than what today would be described as a "Stockade or Concentration Camp."
MO had confederate sympathies to say the least however they never left the Union, so this was self inflicted..and I wonder if it was the genesis for the book that eventually became "the Outlaw Josey Wales"?
While what you say is true, the General and in fact the Raiders themselves, paid little if any heed to what side someone might be on the killing and the burning was just as bad for the "Union" man as the "Johnny Reb." One of the most famous union turncoats became a southern killing machine because of union troops killing his son. Self inflicted? Don't know how; the Jayhawkers were a criminal bunch who killed without any regard to which side a person was on and it appears the Union troops did the same.
