[Gianni]

Wouldn't it have been better to release them?

Prisoner exchange was offered, as stand watie has already pointed out to you. Northern political leaders found their deaths at Andersonville more valuable than their lives.

[#3Fan]

Prisoner exchange was offered, as stand watie has already pointed out to you. Northern political leaders found their deaths at Andersonville more valuable than their lives.

The North could take care of the prisoners, the south couldn't. The south should've released them if they couldn't feed them. Looks like murder to me. The north was under no obligation to give into the demands of the murderers. That would be the equivilant of giving into terrorists today. The south was saying "do this or the POWs die". That's terrorism.