That would make Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and the entire Confederate cabinet guilty of war crimes for what they allowed to happen at Andersonville.
This whole "war crimes' discussion as it relates to the Civil War is silly and pathetic. You can call names and throw insults all you want on either side. Unfortunately, some people insist on seeing everything through a one-way mirror.
the US ARMY JAG admits that there were NO intentional WAR CRIMES committed at Camp Sumter, Andersonville, GA. period.end of story.
there was MUCH sickness & death (due to a lack of food/medicine/supplies & LITTLE understanding of the causes of disease), but NO INTENTIONAL crimes against POWs.
otoh, the damnyankees INTENTIONALLY slaughtered at least 15,000 CSA POWs at just ONE of their many CONCENTRATION CAMPS, mainly because they didn't want to FEED them!
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there was NO INTENTIONAL war crimes committed there. even the US ARMY JAG admits that.
otoh, there were TENS of THOUSANDS of CSA POWs INTENTIONALLY abused/tortured/denied food/denied shelter & clothing/MURDERED by the damnyankees at their many CONCENTRATION CAMPS. (15,000 were MURDERED at PLPOWC alone in about 20 months!)
the US CONGRESS passed a JOINT RESOLUTION, in early 1862,demanding that the "rebel prisoners in our hands" be treated as if they were in the hands of the "savage tribes".
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