All we ever hear in regard to POW camps during Lincoln's illegal and unconstitutional war is Andersonville. Andersonville was their fault and Grant said so because he flat refused General Lee's offer to just come get their men, "for pity's sake". Not even trade, just come and get their men. Grant said NO.
They don't talk about Camp Douglas, Elmira, Point Lookout or any other of the hellholes they put our men in. All they talk about is Andersonville, and Andersonville was THEIR fault. They admitted it over and over, but you don't know that because all anyone ever does is repeat lies they were taught by the victors. People are educated in lies and they teach lies. And the country is coming apart at the seams because of lies. Aren't you sick of lies? We are too.
Here is an excerpt from a book written by a Federal soldier who spent time at Andersonville. His own words:
"The report was brought to us by the incoming
prisoners that the authorities had about shut down
on exchanging prisoners. "Who enter here leave
hope behind" was now fully exemplified. As yet
it was only a surmise, but a few weeks later, or
about the first of August, we heard the cold-blooded
and atrocious excuse from Edward M.
Stanton, that exchange of prisoners was at an end.
"We will not exchange able-bodied men for skeletons,"
and "We do not propose to reinforce the
rebel army by exchanging prisoners."
Ah, now it was a certainty. We realized that
we were forsaken by our Government. The war
office at Washington preferred to let us die rather
than exchange us !
The refusal upon the part of our Government
to exchange prisoners was now an assured fact."
THE TRUE STORY OF ANDERSONVILLE
PRISON
A DEFENSE OF MAJOR HENRY WIRZ
JAMES MADISON PAGE
2d Lieutenant Company A, Sixth Michigan Cavalry
1908