The clip implies that the soldiers did and I just wanted to say that is defintely not the way they would have acted back then, not unless that particular soldiers gone crazy
frankly it sounds like some typical hollywood tought guy crap they put in that was probabaly at odds with what was written by stephen ambrose in the first place.
and having family that fought on both sides of that conflict that lived through it, being told of them and there exploits it just really rubbed me wrong.