[rustbucket]

...the scale of the south's murder of thousand of POWs by not releasing them is ridiculous

From US Secretary of War's tabulation after the war:

Deaths of Federals in Confederate prisons: 22,576
Deaths of Confederates in Federal prisons: 26,436

[4CJ]

the scale of the south's murder of thousand of POWs by not releasing them is ridiculous

#3Fan's heroes are judged guilty by his own words.

[#3Fan]

What were the number of prisoners?

[lentulusgracchus]

[rustbucket] From US Secretary of War's tabulation after the war:

Deaths of Federals in Confederate prisons: 22,576
Deaths of Confederates in Federal prisons: 26,436

Which raises the point again of #3Fan's moral objurgation against the South, in a manner unfavorable to his own "cause" (if that's what it is)....

If the South arguendo was morally reprobated in failing to free Union prisoners they couldn't care for properly, notwithstanding that the Union government made it impossible to exchange them, in #3Fan's construction of the moral balance, then what was the Union government's excuse -- more specifically, what was Abraham Lincoln's excuse (since he was in fact in charge, in every way) for the large numbers of Confederates who died in captivity, given the North's nearly illimitable resources both for prosecuting the war, enlarging its economy, and (if it had wanted to) keeping its Confederate prisoners alive?