[Non-Sequitur]

Yeah. It's called a mass grave with something like 4,000 bodies of confederate prisoners in it.

Now you haven't been paying attention to stand waite, have you? HE claims over 15,000 murdered POWs, all either shot in the back of the head or drowned. In any case, 4000 is about between a third and a quarter of those killed at Andersonville.

[GOPcapitalist]

Now you haven't been paying attention to stand waite, have you? HE claims over 15,000 murdered POWs

That's probably a good estimate. I'm simply noting that the main mass grave that is designated as a cemetary there has an estimated 4,000 in it.

In any case, 4000 is about between a third and a quarter of those killed at Andersonville.

Perhaps, if that is the total. The numbers for Point Lookout are not completely known though.

Perhaps the best indicator is the POW casualty record for each side. More confederates are known to have died in yankee prisons than the total casualties among yankee POWs in the south. This number is especially telling considering that the south captured more POWs than the north.

[Aurelius]

"In any case, 4000 is about between a third and a quarter of those killed at Andersonville."

The men who died at Andersonville (they were not "killed" as you very well know) would not have died had Lincoln not chosen to cease prisoner exchanges to exploit the Northern advantage in potential canon-fodder. If you must insist that they were "killed", then it was Lincoln who was their killer.

[lentulusgracchus]

My great-grandfather personally saw a train in 1865 that was loaded up with Confederate corpses from the federal prison in Indianapolis. They had had no blankets, and they froze to death lying on the ground. They were loaded on flatcars and in gondolas, stiff as boards.

He said there were either 600 or 800 of them; I can't remember which is the correct figure. They were taken out of the city to be buried "God knows where".