One of the real tragedies is Stanton & Grant would not allow prisoner negotiations, exchanges, nor the ability to provide food, medicine, and supplies to Camp Sumter.
Stainless, I know that you know your history.
The story of Andersonville has never been (publicly) told completely.
The death rate of the Confederate sentries was actually slightly HIGHER than that of the northern prisoners. The prisoners got EXACTLY the same rations as the Confederates - only about 700 calories a day. The Confederate army, at the end, was a starving, skeleton army.
However, the situation in northern prison camps was the same (or worse, in some instances), but the reasons were totally DIFFERENT. The northerners had PLENTY of food, they HAD provisions to protect their prisoners from the elements, they HAD medicine to give them.
The yankees didn’t provide for their prisoners simply because they were war criminals.