[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?

[#3Fan]

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?

The 1903 link that rustbucket said was most accurate shows more Federal deaths. I never said the the POWs were treated well, I said they were treated badly.