Professor Charles Sanders spoke to our roundtable recently and persuasively argued that if there was any policy of starvation it applied no less to the Confederacy. I recommend his book "While In The Hands Of The Enemy: Military Prisons Of The Civil War." The blurb from Publishers Weekly on the Amazon.com site says that Sanders "argues that incompetence, inexperience and lack of resources affected prisoners' fates far less than did deliberate decisions made by both the Union and Confederate governments."