[central_va]

The Confederates during the Civil War had what was in effect a concentration camp for Southern Unionists. The Democratic Party, the party of dirty tricks, has some skeletons in its closet.

Ok, post the reference link to this bat sh!t crazy idea.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

“History of the Rebellion in Bradley County, East Tennessee” by JS Hurlburt is an interesting contemporary account of home front brutality and extortion practiced by local Confederate government.

http://archive.org/details/historyofrebelli00hurl

[SeeSharp]

Actually, it was the Union that maintained a series of concentration camps for escaped slaves during the war. They were called “contraband camps”. Escapes negro slaves (from seceded sates only) were put there and forced to work for the Union Army. Many slaves died of neglect and disease in those camps. The camp system was the brain child of Benjamin Butler, the “Beast of New Orleans”.