George Bernard
The sadistic practices of slave owners was carried onto the battlefield in the Civil War. A soldier of the 12th Virginia by the name of George Bernard witnessed an African soldier being treated inhumanly in the Battle of Petersburg, writing his thoughts in his journal after the battle, saying "a negro soldier, a non commissioned officer... begging for his life of two Confederate soldiers who stood by him, one of them striking the poor wretch with a steel ramrod, and the other holding a gun in his hand, with which he seemed to be trying to get a shot at the negro...It was a brutal, horrible act and those of us who witnessed it from our position in the trench a few feet away could but claim: That is too bad! It is shocking!" This quote shows that the malice of slaveowners was carried onto the battlefield. The fact that a soldier was forced to conform to the act of "begging for his own life" shows that slavery was the issue in this situation, as no one would be ordinarily forced into such places in a regular war. No humane person would treat others in such violent and sadistic manors as to strike "the poor wretch" and "get a shot at the negro" if not by the means of slavery, as that is the only other time when such cruel events transpired. Bernard and his comrades felt that it was both "shocking" and "too bad", proving how unbelievably wicked former slaveowners could be, that even their fellow soldiers could think poorly of their "brutal, horrible" actions. In the Civil War, malice and hatred between slave owners and slaves continued after escape, right onto the bloody battlefields.
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