Three minute video, animated. Details the lynching of a Black Spanish American War veteran and connects this to the broader story of lynching as a tool of White Supremacy
In May of 1863, the Confederate Congress passed a joint resolution that formalized Davis's proclamation that black soldiers taken prisoner would not be subject to the prisoner exchange.
On July 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued General Orders 252, which effectively suspended the Dix-Hill Cartel until the Confederate forces agreed to treat black prisoners the same as white prisoners.
Article from the National Park Service on the political dispute that ended prisoner exchanges during the Civil War. The end of these exchanges led to large, dangerous POW camps. Political dispute was about the Confederate refusal to return black POWs.