[cowboyway]

The North would not permit the South to allow Northern doctors through the lines to bring medicines and treat Northern prisoners in Confederate prisons even though the South offered to buy the medicines for the Northern prisoners. Sad, but true

As I stated in post #586: "Northern politicians played politics with Andersonville then just as your northern politicians play politics with Abu Gurab and Gittmo now."

[rustbucket]

As I stated in post #586: "Northern politicians played politics with Andersonville then just as your northern politicians play politics with Abu Gurab and Gittmo now."

Some Northerners during the WBTS figured it out. Here's Walt Whitman in a December 1864 letter to the New York Times concerning prisoner deaths at Andersonville:

In my opinion, the Secretary has taken and obstinately held a position of cold-blooded policy, (that is, he thinks it policy) in this matter, more cruel than anything done by the secessionists. ... In my opinion, the anguish and death of these ten to fifteen thousand American young men, with all the added and incalculable sorrow, long drawn out, amid families at home, rests mainly on the heads of members of our own Government..."