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You said your link was probably the most accurate and they said 36,000, taking the rate to 39%

I said the 1903 count was more complete than Stanton's. And it was, because Stanton's prisoner count was missing a number of Southern prisons.

You are the only person I'm aware of that currently claims a 39% death rate. The prisoners who were there apparently didn't. The park service doesn't.

Overall, including what is known of all the prisons, the death rate appears to be in the 12 to 15% range for both sides (Source: Portals to Hell, Military Prisons of the Civil War by Lonnie L. Speer, 1997).

I said the 1903 count was more complete than Stanton's. And it was, because Stanton's prisoner count was missing a number of Southern prisons. You are the only person I'm aware of that currently claims a 39% death rate. The prisoners who were there apparently didn't. The park service doesn't.

Your link says it! The one you said was the most accurate. But whether it was 12, 15, 24, 29, or 39% can we agree that the prisoners were not treated well? That's all I asked for when this subject was brought up. One bit of honesty. I never said the union treated their prisoners well and I'm sure there were murderers on both sides running the prisons. When I asked if the prisoners at Andersonville were treated well, the answer was "yes", which goes against the thing I asked for...honesty about just one thing.

Overall, including what is known of all the prisons, the death rate appears to be in the 12 to 15% range for both sides

But can you agree they weren't treated well?

the US count of deaths of CSA POWs does NOT include the TENS OF THOUSANDS of CSA POWs who were "mysteriously disappeared" (think Argentina here).

AT LEAST 15,000 were MURDERED in cold blood at PLPOWC. their bodies were secretly buried all over the site of the current Point Lookout State Park AND the bones continue to wash up every time it rains hard.

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