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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Add Columbus, Ohio to your list of death camps. The cemetary still exists.
Thanks, good information.
Of General Forrest, I think we can say that he tried hard to do what he thought was right. If he sometimes failed to do so ... so do we all. If he was sometimes wrong about what was right ... so are we all.