Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison, by Joseph Wheelan, tells the story of the horrendous conditions Union POW officers endured in a Richmond warehouse.
Apologists for the south have always claimed that the Confederacy had few resources for their own troops and civilians, and that Union POWs had the same rations as everyone else. I doubt that, but even if it is true, what was the cost of keeping POWs in clean, more spacious cells, with access to clean water?
This book simply highlights the moral necessity to treat POWs humanely. Any excuses for not doing so is a whitewash for war crimes.
Apologists for the south have always claimed that the Confederacy had few resources for their own troops and civilians, and that Union POWs had the same rations as everyone else. I doubt that, but even if it is true, what was the cost of keeping POWs in clean, more spacious cells, with access to clean water?
This book simply highlights the moral necessity to treat POWs humanely. Any excuses for not doing so is a whitewash for war crimes.
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