>>I suggest that you take a little trip down to Andersonville way and then spend a day or three in a histories library jdorocia@soback.kornet21.net (John Dorociak) And you sir, I suggest spend a day or three in the histories library at Elmyra in NY, or perhaps Point LookOut in Maryland, then tell us about the rights of those there and how Lincolns government guaranteed them......Ohhhhh wait, those were Yankee prisons, therefore the truth won't be made public, they were 'right' and to the victors go the spoils of war, history can be written anyway they want it to be.