Not all dogs: bloodhounds.

In Relationshits I wrote about one important friendship, that between generals Grant and Sherman and how that friendship saved the Union, saved the principle of government of the people by the people. I mentioned the battles of Shiloh and Corinth in Mississippi—the Deep South. There was also the long campaign to besiege Vicksburg where the Union Army travelled hundreds of miles in Mississippi and fought and won five battles. By the time Vicksburg fell slavery no longer existed in Mississippi!

Not all Union people were Abolitionists! Many became such by what they found on the plantations there! In the Deep South slaves were worked harder and longer and were whipped more than elsewhere—Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia etc.

The Union forces fighting in Mississippi and, after Chattanooga, in Georgia (Battle of Atlanta and then Sherman’s March to the Sea) bloodhounds were shot on sight and whipping posts were destroyed.

The bloodhounds were used to track down escaped slaves and convicts. This enraged the Union troops after what they had seen in their campaigning!

Man’s best friend—not always!

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kROKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=Grant+Mississippi+campaign+%22whipping+posts%22&source=bl&ots=m_jq-RnxDa&sig=ACfU3U3mYCK70QT2ny2HbHu3yFkyz9TggQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqkprKjJjqAhXWzjgGHQCSBIEQ6AEwDXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Grant%20Mississippi%20campaign%20%22whipping%20posts%22&f=false

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgQPx0zWI-g
Starting about 6:25

thats interesting   and yes hunting with dogs is the norm over there even today  instead of slaves they hunt the bears.....bloody awful.

Yeah, what we don’t do, eh cods? Some pretty bad things!

[Rac]coon hunting with dogs is likely still done too.

Sherman was a war criminal who killed indiscriminately. Man, woman or child, black or white it made no difference to him. He looted the South and sent hundreds of wagons of plunder North. What he didn't steal he burned, the people left alive in his wake starved!

So, where are your Tasmanian tigers?

Mortdooley wrote on Jun 24^th, 2020 at 11:16pm:

Sherman was a war criminal who killed indiscriminately. Man, woman or child, black or white it made no difference to him. He looted the South and sent hundreds of wagons of plunder North. What he didn't steal he burned, the people left alive in his wake starved! So, where are your Tasmanian tigers?

Look! Mortie is still fighting the Civil War in his head.

Wasn’t just hatred of slavery tho that was a factor: as Union armies approached confederate areas planters would move their gear and “best slaves” and move to another state, the sick and elderly slaves were left to fend for themselves. Some of these slaves had had a foot, a hand or a tongue cut off.

But the “slavering bloodhounds” had also been used to track escaped Union POWs. These POWs now exchanged and back in the Union Army had, naturally, a visceral hatred of these dogs.


—Info from “Vicksburg: Grant’s campaign that broke the Confederacy” by Donald L. Miller.