GannonFan wrote:citdog wrote:gannonjocksniffer I am still waiting, with bated breath Sir, for your sure to be eloquent defense of the facts surrounding the deliberate murder of Confederate Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines at the hands of their captors during our late War.
Uh, I know you may have missed it while you were busy jerking yourself off to the image of Gen Hood's stub of a leg ramming you up the arse or while you were busy salivating over the idea of keeping a Black man in chains and whipping him, but I'm pretty sure I never "defended" Northern prisons - on the contrary, I condemned them as atrocities just like I condemned the Southern ones where Union soldiers were deliberately murdered.
Gannonfan wrote:...POW camps on both sides of the war were awful and thousands of prisoners died.... All were scenes of great atrocities and all were stains on both sides of the war.
See, unlike you, I can take an objective look at the whole subject and not blindly miss half of the equation. Strange how you don't mention the South's refusal to exchange Black soldiers or their white commanders as part of the prisoner exchange programs. How many of these poor soldiers who died in awful conditions like at Camp Douglas or Point Lookout or Belle Island or Andersonville didn't have to die in such overcrowded and undersupplied prisons if only the South would've been able to get past its obsession with fighting to keep slavery? Shame on the South.

We deliberately murdered no one. This man knew what happened and he was a prisoner AT ANDERSONVILLE!
"You rulers who make the charge that the Rebels intentionally killed off our men, when I can HONESTLY SWEAR THAT THEY WERE DOING EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO SUSTAIN US, do not lay this flattering unction to your souls. You abandoned your brave men in the hour of their cruelest need. They fought for the union and you reached no hand out to save the old faithful, loyal, and devoted servants of the country. You may attempt to shift the blame from your own shoulders, but posterity will saddle the responsibility where it justly belongs"
Edward Ellington Boate
42nd New York Infantry
POW Andersonville
In the New York Times
No Sir gannonfelcher the us authorities do NOT get off that easily. There is NO EXCUSE for the conditions of those camps in the north. There is no excuse for the contents of the Lane Resolution. It was murder. It was just like the Doctor at Elmira said "I killed more Rebs than ANY Genl at the front".
btw.... we offered to exchange USCT. We offered to ship the sick yankee POW's home with NO EXCHANGE if the federal authorities would provide transportation. we offered for the yankees to send their own medicine and Doctors to the camps to provide care for their people. The exchange of prisoners was halted because when our men were exchanged, as they were fighting for their freedom, liberty, and our country's independence, they went back in the field. When your men were exchanged they went back to their homes.