The exact figures will never be known. It does not matter, the vast majority of those prisoners of war that died in captivity should not have died accept for the callousness and indifference of the United States Government and the Confederate States Government toward the prisoners of war.
The exact figures will never be known. It does not matter, the vast majority of those prisoners of war that died in captivity should not have died accept for the callousness and indifference of the United States Government and the Confederate States Government toward the prisoners of war.
The treatment of POW’s was awful. In the case of the CSA, it was mostly the result of the blockade and of hunger and want of medical supplies suffered by the entire region. The difference is one of intent.