Of course the aftermath of this kind of atrocities with the KKK was much worst than those during the Civil War with the Southern women. Of all the women that had this been done to, Mrs. Howell died two years after the events. She suffered a amputation as well since her knee and down was brutally damaged.

I would like to see if my theory on these men were not from Colonal Waugh's command rather a group of malicious men in a gang that took advantage of the situation. I recently read Lorien Foote's The Gentlemen and the Rough (2011). It also suggest that there were two kinds of men in the Civil War, the gentlemen and the rough. The gentlemen were men of the genteel social class (mostly middle to upper class and volunteered ment) and dealt with manilhood in a calm and control nature, while the rough (mostly of those of the lower class and conscript men) who display maniliness in more physical nature, however don't treat anyone with respect, like these women had found themselves in. Yet, there are men with similar nature like unto the roughs but they fight other men just to see if they can prove their manhood and then once the fight is over they respect the man.

I know there can be many theory as to whom these men are that went about brutally torturing women. For me, it is as if they disrespect women so much that they would even do this to their own mothers and sisters.

Thanks for your thoughts,
Matt Friend