[0.E.O]

I think Col Wirz got the shaft. Yes, the suffering at Andersonville Prison was bad, but not on purpose. Only by neglect. Northern Prison could have been much better as the resources were there, Yankee atrocities were on purpose.

It was Captain Wirz, and conditions in prisons on both sides was deliberate. And reprehensible. Wirz deserved what he got, but he shouldn't have been there alone. There are others North and South who should have swung as well.

[central_va]

Most of the suffering at Andersonville came from the Yankees themselves. Wirz let the Yankees make their own rules and run the place internally.