I read some memoirs somewhere of a southern officer. I don’t even remember who it was but he said in his story that the southern army was so lacking food that they couldn’t even feed their own troops and they did the best they could to feed their POW’s . He expressed sympathy for the Union POWs because they couldn’t feed them properly.
Nonsense. The confederate mistreatment of federal POWs was as deliberate and as criminal as the federal treatment of rebel POWs was. Andersonville was deep in Georgia, an area untouched by the war when it was built. It was a rich and fertile area, providing food for much of the South. The confederates had sufficient transportation to get the POWs to Andersonville so they had transportation to get food there, too. If they had wanted to. They didn't, and tens of thousands died.