Just an interesting fact found in the book, The Civil War Years, A Day-by-Day Chronicle.
December 12 (Saturday), 1863.
"The United States, until now, had been sending rations to Richmond to feed the 13,000 Union prisoners held there, because the Confederate government did not have the means. This changed today when orders were given in Richmond that no more supplies from the United States should be received by the Federal prisoners."
Anyone know why these orders were given?
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