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Actually all of the Confederacy was short on just about anything. Of course farmers typically ate better than people in cities or the Confederate army for that matter.

Something a lot of people don’t know is the locals around Andersonville did on their own initiative try to supply what they could to the prison.

I just recently read a history of a Confederate soldier named Flowers who served in the battle of Nashville. He said the entire Confederate army was literally starving. They made one last gasp attempt and when it failed, they basically surrendered because they were too sick and starving to go on.

He was imprisoned at Chicago. He said the Union officers were OK but the guards were the most evil people he ever encountered. They just took pleasure in torturing prisoners, would just for the fun of it, kick them, hit them etc.

The South has absolutely nothing to apologize in the treatment of prisoners.

The Unions treatment of Confederate prisoner is one of the great untold stories.

I have in the past studied about Rock Island. It was worse than Andersonville and the death rate was in fact the worst of any Civil War prison.


17 posted on 02/16/2013 11:03:45 AM PST by yarddog (One shot one miss.)
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Something a lot of people don’t know is the locals around Andersonville did on their own initiative try to supply what they could to the prison.

For a price, sure. And that could have helped those who had money or something to barter. Don't assume it was a humanitarian operation, though.

The South has absolutely nothing to apologize in the treatment of prisoners.

"Absolutely nothing." Sounds like false bravado.

22 posted on 02/16/2013 12:02:04 PM PST by x
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