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“I can’t state that I’ve read every account of southern POWs in Federal hands, but could you point me towards said info could be found?”

This may help:

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p137_Weber.html

“An agricultural nation (which the South was) couldn’t even find enough food?”

You need a little help. Go to google and find where Andersonville was located. Now food moves two ways: road or rail? At the time of Andersonville, which Union General had control of the central roads in Georgia?

Atlanta was the railroad hub that served food suppliers and consumers. Who had just burned Atlanta?

What were Union troops doing with railroad steel?

What were Union troops doing to Southern farms and food warehouses?

If you think a few thousand Union troops died at Andersonville at the hands of the Confederates, what would you think of a few thousand Georgia citizens starved to death while someone wanted to “make them howl”?