Not sure why you’d drag the civil war into this but do you imagine Point Lookout was the Hilton?
For all I know, he could have been one of those pictured above...
Yep. And the North had Camp Douglas which was just as bad. The Civil War Camps were more about neglect than anything. Neither side had the resources or care to decently take care of captured prisoners. The concentration camps were totally different and were industrial murder.
Not remotely comparable. Andersonville was not ever intended to be a death camp. In fact, the law in the CSA was that prisoners were to receive the same rations as Confederate soldiers. There was widespread hunger in the Southern states by the end of the war and it was the Union government that refused prisoner exchanges and even refused to send food and medicine when the Confederate government offered to let them to supply their own POW’s in Confederate prison camps.
You know where there was plentiful food and medicine and it was deliberately withheld from POW’s causing conditions so bad their own inspectors called one of the most infamous examples a “death camp”? Camp Douglas in Chicago. Of course, Point Lookout, Maryland and Elmira aka “Hellmira”, NY were almost as bad. That was deliberate union government policy.
By that logic, Republicans did the same to my Great-Great-Grandfather at Point Lookout Prison Camp, Maryland, he survived but just barely.