[4CJ]

Both sides did a horrible job with their POW camps.

Bump. Although if Lincoln had simply acceded to prisoner exchanges (as had been the norm), then there would not have been a single POW camp necessary by either side.

[stand watie]

VERY TRUE!

but if "lincoln, the TYRANT" had done so, the DAMNyankees would have NOT had the chance to PERMANENTLY stain their reputation for honor/common decency AND they wouldn't have had to LIE for a century & a half about what they did in their DEATH CAMPS!

just think of all the books of KNOWING, SELF-righteous LIES that would NOT have been published & all the authors/editors/printers/booksellers, who would have been "put out of work" writing/printing/selling those SELF-serving, sanctimonious LIES.(sarcasm button: ON)

free dixie,sw

[Non-Sequitur]

Although if Lincoln had simply acceded to prisoner exchanges (as had been the norm), then there would not have been a single POW camp necessary by either side.

And if the Davis regime had treated Union prisoners as prisoners instead of criminals, runaway slaves, and the like the prisoner exchanges might have continued.