‘Based on what a hell hole Andersonville Prison was, he was lucky not to be hung.’
Irrelevant. We’re talking about events that took place AFTER THE WAR, not ‘during’.
The South treated prisoners as well as they could, with the limited amounts of supplies and provisions it had at its disposal. Yes, Andersonville was horrific, no denying it. But the Union prisons weren’t much better...but again that was DURING THE WAR.
We are discussing what took place for almost three years AFTER THE WAR.
If you want to talk about hanging Jefferson Davis, the events of five years before his capture are more along the lines of ‘indictable’ then citing a Prison he (Davis) never once visited, nor controlled directly.
Thats like Impeaching Bush for Abu Ghraib.
“Based on what a hell hole Andersonville Prison was, he was lucky not to be hung.”
They hung Henry Wirz for that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wirz