An interesting anecdote about the colorful general.
Regarding some of the comments, I don’t understand why we can’t accept that any historical figure (heck, any living person!) does some things that are good and some that are bad; that most people have both gifts and weaknesses, successes and failures.
that's why.
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the U S POW Center (at Andersonville) investigated every available/possible accusation (over a 10-year investigation) of INTENTIONAL abuse/torture/murder/other war crimes & could NOT find CREDABLE evidence of even ONE such incident.
there was MUCH sickness/hunger/disease & many deaths, but NO cases of INTENTIONAL abuse of POWs there. period.end of story.
otoh, the DYs ran DEATH CAMPS at Point Lookout, MD, Elmira, NY, Camp Douglas, IL & at some other places.
the INTENT of which was TORTURE,denial of medical care, INTENTIONAL starvation, "exposure of their natural persons to cold of winter & heat of summer, without suitable shelter" & (in all too many cases) OUTRIGHT cold-bloodied MURDER.
fwiw, a serving Prussian MAJ of The 4th King's Hussars, who visited Point Lookout, MD, was the first (known) person to use the term = Concentration Camp to describe the facility. MAJ Achs said, in his report to the commanding general, that "if the present war continues much longer, i expect NONE of those UNFORTUNATES to survive".
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