[Buckeye Battle Cry]

My great-great grandfather died in Andersonville as a POW. He was a member of an Indiana regiment.

[Joe Boucher]

Wife and i visited Andersonville last year.
My oh my what a horrible history the place has.
I will say the Union POW camps were no better.
Neither side would muster the funds needed to properly care for the other sides prisoners.

[Islander7]

My great, great grandfather died a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, IL. He’s buried in a mass grave with 6,000 others.

[Bull Snipe]

as did nearly 13,000 other Union Army prisoners.

[BuffaloJack]

> My great-great grandfather died in Andersonville as a POW. He was a member of an Indiana regiment.

My great-great uncle died in Elmira, NY as a POW.

[.45 Long Colt]

My great-grandfather barely made it out of Point Lookout alive.

[oldvirginian]

Much of what happened to Union soldiers in Confederate prisons can be laid at the feet of Grant and Lincoln.
They were the ones who decided to end the practices of prisoner furloughs and prisoner exchanges.
They hoped to deny seasoned troops and officers to the Confederacy while overwhelming the prison system.
It worked, but many men on both sides died needlessly.