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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (348021)	1/26/2003 1:16:07 PM
From: KonKilo	of 769670

I have always understood that Lincoln did not want to prosecute the Confederates. He wanted to end the secession and get back to running the US again. True...had he lived, the issue of prosecuting the vanquished Confederacy never would have gotten as far as it did. And Grant too, for all of his relentless battlefield tactics, had no interest in seeing the South punished further. In fact, his generous surrender terms at Appomattox had a positive effect on persuading the remaining Confederate armies in the field to cease hostilities. That's an excellent link. The conditions described at Andersonville, the filth, the overcrowding, the disease, the starvation were also the conditions of the Confederate army camps at the time. Left unsaid was the fact that gangs of Union prisoners within the prison had the most lethal effect on other prisoners, after disease. I think a good case could be made for Wirz' being a sacrificial lamb demanded by a victorious government bent on having its pound of flesh.

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