Although the Civil War ended in 1865, the controversies it had never did. As northerners and southerners shaped the new political, social, and cultural world of the postwar nation, together they faced a crucial obstacle.To be specific , the harshness that refused to die away quickly was the wartime treatment of captured Union and Confederate soldiers.The prison disagreement formed during the Civil War which was from 1861 to 1865. Before fighting, neither side gave a lot of thought to the possibility of caring for large numbers of prisoners of war, and from 1861 on, prisoners suffered through difficult conditions in both the Union and Confederacy side. As the problem grew more harsher , the question exchanging the prisoners of war became increasingly sensitive which ultimately lead…show more content… As the artcile,”Andersonville from history,com describes, “Henry Wirz, the commander of Andersonville was arrested for the murder of soldiers incarcerated at the prison during the war.” Just hearing what he did makes you want to know more about him, well , Catherine Gourley’s “The Horrors of Andersonville”tells us more. “Wirz’s job was to enforce prisoner discipline inside the pen and to ensure that no one escaped...And although he was not responsible for securing or distributing food, he could withhold rations as punishment.” The conditions weren’t the only things that caused the prisoners to lose their lives, the camp's own commander, Henry Wirz, reportedly, took many lives of the soldiers and was executed for it.A commander’s job was to keep the prisoner’s in discipline inside the camps and faculties and to make sure that no one ran away but Henry Wirz even though food wasn’t his area of in charge, he would take away the privileges of food from some prisoners as a way of punishment. Here is another Human Right which was
