While I think the conditions stated in the article are true, bear in mind that this article was written by a northerner as you read some of the author's rantings (ie he states that the north took great care of the confederate prisoners while they made our Union troops suffer horrible conditions; well we in the north had some pretty bad war prisons as well).
William H.H. Wilcox, who was first at Libby Prison apparently didn't have any luck. He was later transferred to Camp Sorghum in Columbia, SC which apparently wasn't much better in terms of the conditions. I can't upload the NY Times article to this site because it gets all distorted, but you can see it here. The article discusses the horrible conditions they suffered there and how there was a large effort to get them released (about 10,000 Union soldiers in all). At the end there is a list of names of the latest officers finally released and William is there as "Lt. W.H.H. Wilcox, RQM, 10th NY."
While I think the conditions stated in the article are true, bear in mind that this article was written by a northerner as you read some of the author's rantings (ie he states that the north took great care of the confederate prisoners while they made our Union troops suffer horrible conditions; well we in the north had some pretty bad war prisons as well).
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