wat stopped prisoner exchanges? who was put to death because of a prisoner of warcamp?

Answer 1

The reason prisioners exchanges were stopped is when swapped the Yankees would go on home but Confederate boys being more dedicated and fighting for the homes, family would go back to fighting. The Yankees knew the Confederacy would be honor bound to try to feed and house the Union POWs and to do so would hamper the Confederate war effort. The North continued to refuse and finally the Confederacy offered the North cotton and gold as payment to take them without exchange but the yankees refused. We feed the boys at Andersonville the same rations our boys ate but yet after the war the Yankees tried Henry Wirz for war crimes and hung him.

A General Cleburne was quoted saying “Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youths will be taught by Northern school teachers; learn from Northern school books THEIR version of the war”.

Here lies one of the biggest proofs that the yankees lie and continue to lie about the war. Why but there has all ready been a holocaust in this country (I mean other then what we did to the native Americans) take a look at Johnson s Island (northern Ohio); Camp Douglas (Chicago); and Elmira (New York). But they were never charged with any crimes.

The official U.S. position on the treatment of Confederate prisoners of war during The War for Southern Independence would shock many modern Americans. The data, facts and statistics have been thoroughly eliminated from American history books. One must research the original documents to discover the horrible truth.

During the Civil War (1861-1865), the U.S. House of Representatives passed the following resolution: "Rebel prisoners in our hands are to be subjected to a treatment finding its parallels only in the conduct of savage tribes and resulting in the death of multitudes by the slow but designed process of starvation and by mortal diseases occasioned by insufficient and unhealthy food and wanton exposure of their persons."

One Yankee prison commander boasted that he had killed more Confederate soldiers than any Union officer on the front battle lines.

The story of Confederate prison camps, especially Andersonville, has been misrepresented. There was no deliberate attempt to mistreat northern POWs. The South asked the North to send doctors and medicine, and they tried to exchange the prisoners.

The North refused and finally the Confederacy offered the North cotton and gold as payment to take them without exchange. Again, the North refused to do so. They knew the Confederate States of America would be honor bound to try to feed and house the Union POWs and to do so would hamper the Confederate war effort.

God Bless You and Our Southern People.

Answer 2

First, it was Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate prison Andersonville, who was tried and executed after the Civil War. However, there is no indication that Wirz went out of his way to make things bad for the prisoners for whom he was responsible. In fact, there is good evidence that he made an effort to improve conditions as much as he could. He was simply operating under the same hardships that prison commandants on both sides faced, what with unprecedented numbers of prisoners and inadequate provisions made for their housing and care. Wirz operated under the additional burden that the Confederacy faced, particularly later in the War, and that was a lack of supplies in general, and food in particular.

As for the prisoner exchanges, that was indeed ended by the Union, but only after the Confederacy refused to exchange black Union soldiers, enslaving them instead, even though many had never been slaves in the first place.

The attempt by one of the other answerers here, Southron, to foist blame off on the Union alone, as he does in all his answers regarding the Civil War, is not historically accurate. Both sides deserve a measure of blame for the deplorable conditions under which prisoners of war were kept, and the reasons for the breakdown of the exchange. He is almost certainly right that Union culpability is "under-reported," but that is no excuse for absolving the Confederacy of their share of the blame.

Answer 3

If you're referring to the American Civil War, Secretary of War Stanton & General Grant refused to exchange POWs. Henry Wirz, commandant of Andersonville was executed after war's end.

Answer 4

Just to back up Jeff's rebuttal of the nonsense Southron keeps pushing (and, by the way, I think we must acknowledge much honor and valor among troops on BOTH sides, rather than this silly honoring of one and vilifying the other).

Here's a summary answer to Question #1

"In the beginning most prisoners were exchanged and returned to their armies after a few months, but after 1863 far fewer exchanges were taking place. One reason for decreasing exchanges was the South’s treatment of Northern black soldiers. The South regarded black soldiers as runaway slaves and refused to treat them as legitimate prisoners of war. Confederate policy was to execute or enslave them. Although the South did not systematically carry out this order, the North was reluctant to continue prisoner exchanges. In April 1864 Grant stopped almost all exchanges because the South, with fewer soldiers, had more to lose. The North and its superior manpower could better withstand the loss of its troops."
http://www.civilwarhistory.com/070400/summary.htm

And a source for his answer to Question #2:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersonville_Prison#History