The Racism Card

While twice as many died at Sumter (Andersonville) as did Douglas, Douglas had half the number of prisoners as well. Many of the POWs who died at Douglas were dumped into Lake Michigan, others were buried in unmarked pauper graves and others were sold to medical schools and others buried in shallow graves without coffins. How many really died at Douglas we will never know because the Union destroyed many of the records intentionally at the end of the war. Later many of the pauper burials were reburied in a mass grave known as Confederate Mound--the largest mass grave in the western hemisphere.

Unlike Henry Wirz, no one from the Union was ever held accountable for the actions at Camp Douglas (or Elmira or any other Union POW...