"Prosecuted War Criminals During the American Civil War" Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 Jul 2018 9:39 p.m. PST |
"The conditions that captured Union soldiers endured at the Confederacy's Andersonville Prison were horrific and during the eighteen months that the prion was in operation, nearly 13,000 Union soldiers died from malnutrition, disease, and exposure to the element due to inhumane treatment by Andersonville's Commander – Henry Wirz. So it really should come as no surprise that his prosecution for war crimes after the South's surrender is the most well-known trial resulting from the Civil War. But it is not as commonly known that there were almost one thousand other military prosecutions of Confederates with many of these due to the mistreatment of captured Union soldiers…."
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| Choctaw | 06 Jul 2018 7:43 a.m. PST |
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| wpilon | 06 Jul 2018 8:30 p.m. PST |
The death rate at Camp Douglas was 17%, a bit more than HALF the 29% death rate of Andersonville. And that's not even considering that the U.S. troops were generally in better physical condition when captured than the rebels. |
| Tango01 | 07 Jul 2018 12:13 p.m. PST |
Question … the poor conditions of life for prisoners of war in the ACW was due to lack of resources, irrational hatred or apathy? Amicalement
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| AICUSV | 08 Jul 2018 7:39 p.m. PST |
Kennedy wasn't executed as a war criminal, but as a spy and saboteur. |
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