Quote Originally Posted by Southron129 View Post
The conditions that developed at Andersonville, circa 1864/65 can be DIRECTLY attributed to General U.S. Grant and the NORTHERN decision to stop exchanging prisoners. Prisoners at Andersonville received EXACTLY the same rations as Confederate soldiers serving in the field.
Yeah? How many guards at Andersonville starved to death? How many died of scurvy? Typhoid? If they got the same rations as the prisoners, then their death-rate should be comparable, should it not? Now just who is dishing revisionist propaganda?

Oh yeah....regarding blaming Grant for the end of prisoner exchanges: Is "Fort Pillow" a term you're familiar with?
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