[Non-Sequitur]

I had come across some of those figures before, for example the statistics on food imports from the midwest and west. The confederacy wasn't self sufficient in food.

Georgia was. Or are you suggesting that the area around Andersonville was marked by famine and starvation?

[Grand Old Partisan]

There was no fighting at all anywhere near Andersonville until the very end of the war, so rebel excuses for allowing the prisoners there to starve were lame. Even the Nazis fed American POWs.

[rustbucket]

Georgia was [self sufficient in food]. Or are you suggesting that the area around Andersonville was marked by famine and starvation?

I see. Then there was no need for the cattle drives from Florida to supply meat to Georgia and the troops. Shame the Confederates didn't know. Florida Cow Cavalry