How many Innocent women and children of the South died by Lincolns orders?

Answer 1

Please change your settings so you can be asked to join our group. It is estimated that 68000 Southern Civilians men, women and children were shot, bombard or hung. At the same time it is estimated less then 2000 yankees civilian were killed.

God Bless You and Our Southern People.

Answer 2

Lincoln did not order any innocent men, women or children to be killed, just as General Robert E. Lee didn't order any innocent men, women or children killed on the Northern side.

There was this war, see. Many innocent people on both sides died in this war. That's what usually happens in a war, especially a civil war fought without computer-guided weapons in areas habitated by citizens. If you're looking for death totals on either side, those statistics are available through any good civil war history book or website, including wikipedia.

Answer 3

It was a war. Wars are terrible. How many innocent people of other places died as well, not having anything to do with Lincoln's orders ?
Wars are a mistake, to say the least

Answer 4

Zero died by Lincoln's orders, or just as many Northern women and children died as a result of Jefferson Davis' orders.

Please do some research before posting these types of questions, or explain your question in greater depth. It was NOT the official policy of either North or South to wage war upon civilians, but the theory of total war was used to cripple the Confederacy's ability to wage war, ie., destruction of rail, food stuffs, warehouses, farming to supply troops, the destruction of war factories. It is true that ancillary deaths were caused by the effects of war on both sides, but it was never official policy of either the Davis or Lincoln administration.

Officially the estimate of death in the US Civil War was in excess of 622,000 with approximately 1/3 of those directly attributable to battle deaths. the remainder were attributable to disease, etc.

Answer 5

Huh?

First, define "innocent". Second, where are your numbers and statistics - who died, how many, and from what proximate causes?

What orders?

Who started it all - the Southern plutocracy? Blame it on them.

Jefferson Davis and his wealthy Southern supporters starved out and impoverished more Southerner civilians than any Northern action. Check it out, half or more of Southern draftees abandoned the fight, and not just at the end, because that government did not support its people. Lee said he had more troops that had deserted than he had on the field.

Answer 6

None. In fact, Lincoln harbored known Secessionists in the White House--his sister-in-law, Emile Helm, who had been widowed when her husband, Ben, was killed at the Battle of Chickamaugua.

To quote from "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin (p. 590)-
Judge [David] Davis saw Lincoln shortly after he received the news of Helm's death. "I never saw Mr. Lincoln more moved than when he heard that his young brother-in-law, Ben Hardin Helm, scarely thirty-two years of age, had been killed," Davis said. "I saw how grief-stricken he was...so I closed the door and left him alone."

Emilie had been in Selma AL when her husband died, and wanted to return to her home in KY, which was behind Union lines. Lincoln personally signed a pass allowing her to do so. When asked at the Union lines to take a loyalty oath, she refused. Lincoln allowed her to come North, to the White House, without having to do so. She was received at the White House with the warmest affection. To quote from Team of Rivals again- (p. 592)-The three of them, Emile wrote in her diary, were "all too grief stricken at first for speech." Lincoln was severely criticized for giving his sister-in-law succour in her time of need.

I hope you see from this passage that the Civil War was a time of great sorrow and suffering, both North and South. Lincoln was known for his compassion for pardoning soldiers who had fallen asleep at their posts or even run from battle. When he visited the wounded in hospitals, he would go to the wards where the Confederates were and bare his head in respect for their courage.

Lincoln was a more complex man than you apparently think he was, and he definately was not a cold-hearted person in any way.

Answer 7

It's hard to say for sure how many women and children died.

95,000 killed in action
165,000 died of other causes
260,000 TOTAL Confederate dead and/or missing

Answer 8

So you are at it again. Oh well, some never grow up.