Prisoner Exchange Quotes
He was describing the Battle of Zagonara in 1424 and Molinella in 1427. Although major battles of the time the only casualties in the later were horses, and in the former, three armored men fell off their horses into the mud and drowned. Battle was almost like a capture the flag game with uniforms and weapons displayed.
This clause applied to German POWs in America caused a problem for Blacks in the military were harshly discriminated against by a then discriminating country. The result was that Nazi POWs did not have to move to the back of a theater while the Back GIs were required to, and a host of other gross indignities.
The swap was made and all captives were released.
When the Union army began using Blacks as recruits, the South threatened to execute any Negro soldier they captured. Some Southerners opposed execution but favored enslavement of captured Northern Black soldiers. The Lincoln threat seems to have worked, although Lincoln opposed executing Southern officers in retaliation for the atrocities at southern prisoner of war camps
