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Skriven 2011-03-12 06:54:48 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 15044 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Texas Terquasqicentennial
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Replying to a message of Roy Witt to Bob Ackley:

 RW> 05 Mar 11 08:01, Bob Ackley wrote to Ward Dossche:

 RW>  [you wrote to Ward Dossche]

 BA>> FWIW, Lt Abner Doubleday (the baseball guy) was in Anderson's
 BA>> garrison at Fort Sumter.  Throughout the war he absolutely *hated*
 BA>> southerners.

 RW> He had no one to blame for his treatment at Andersonville but his own
 RW> Generals.

I believe that the Fort Sumter garrison was just shipped north to Virginia and 
sent packing across the border.

 RW> During the early stages of the Northern War of Aggression the federal
 RW> government refused to negotiate the exchange of prisoners as it did
 RW> not recognize the Confederacy as a nation. Funny how they had earlier
 RW> declared war against it...

The north also clained that states could not secede from the union - and then
required those states that did to reapply for admission to the union - and
maintained
occupation troops in those states for 20 years.

 RW> General Henry Halleck became the Union representative in 1863 and was
 RW> involved in prisoner exchanges that had stopped after an 1862
 RW> agreement of prisoner exchanges between certain generals. Under
 RW> pressure from Edwin Stanton, the north's Secretary of War, these
 RW> exchanges became less frequent. When Ulysses S. Grant became overall
 RW> commander of the Union Army he brought an end to exchanges.

Apparently the north (Stanton) wanted his people held as prisoners in the south
in order
to strain the south's resources to feed them.  Then again, perhaps he didn't
want any of
them back on his side of the border where they could tell people what life in
the south
was REALLY like.

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