Civil War Confederate Major General. As the officer responsible for Confederate Prisons, he is almost universally vilified for the deplorable conditions in nearly all the prisons in the South. He has been accused of deliberately starving Union Prisoners, and creating the brutal and deadly conditions in stockades such as Andersonville. In truth the conditions were created by the entire breakdown of the Confederacy in general, who at times could not even feed its own troops and people, much less its prisoners. There is no evidence that Winder deliberately created the conditions, which also existed in many Northern Prisons that had just as deadly and deplorable conditions for its Southern Prisoners.
Civil War Confederate Major General. As the officer responsible for Confederate Prisons, he is almost universally vilified for the deplorable conditions in nearly all the prisons in the South. He has been accused of deliberately starving Union Prisoners, and creating the brutal and deadly conditions in stockades such as Andersonville. In truth the conditions were created by the entire breakdown of the Confederacy in general, who at times could not even feed its own troops and people, much less its prisoners. There is no evidence that Winder deliberately created the conditions, which also existed in many Northern Prisons that had just as deadly and deplorable conditions for its Southern Prisoners.
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