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Re: Lincoln and Andersonville
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"were half decent and the prisoners ate well"

Mortality Rate

Camp Alton and Rock Island Ill. 14%
Camp Chase 13%
Camp Morton 10%
Fort Delaware 9%
Camp Douglas 15%
Elmira New York 24%

There is no reason that any of these men should have died, nearly 29,000 in all. Nor should have Union prisoners died but they did. But a really big difference between the Confederate government and the Union Government, in this regard, is the Confederate government punished their own officers who were found cruel and unlawful in courts martial in the treatment of prisoners in their charge; I know of no such actions by the United States towards it's own people against Confederate POWs.

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David Upton

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