[Non-Sequitur]

BTW, i heard a professor at a recent civil War roundtable here in DC say that "more than twice as many POWs died at Point Lookout from the effects of intentional mistreatment than died from all causes at Andersonville."

For a while you were saying most were shot in the back of the head, then it was most were drowned by the damnyankee guards, now we're down to 'intentional mistreatment'. First it was 3,000 died at Point Lookout, then 15,000 murdered at Point Lookout, and now you're up to 26,000. You need to get your stories straight or else we'll wind up with 100,000 murdered and they were all tickled to death by the sadistic damnyankee guards.

[stand watie]

wouldn't you guess "intentional mistreatment" includes murder, intentional starvation, denial of medical treatment & torture?

as i've said before, the BEST ESTIMATE of those POWs MURDERED is about 15,000.

BTW, is this subject really AMUSING for you?

for dixie,sw