“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
And rightly so if I may add.
I don't claim to be a Constitutional Scholar, the South may have well been within their rights to break away from the USA. But Davis, and all the southern leadership claimed to be Christians. There was nothing "Christian" about the way the treated their POW's.
If they were decent and honorable men, then Adersonville would have never happened.
Personally, I would have hung everyone who in the least fashion had any connection with that hell hole, even up to Robert E. Lee if their had been evidence of him having mere knowledge of the conditions there.
But this nation has always rewarded those who abuse our POWs.
I suspect it's due to the fact the post war clean ups are done by fagots in stripped pants who hold warriors in contempt. My tag line reveals the contempt I feel for Dubya by the way.