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It was Grant's ending of the system of prisoner-exchange in March 1864 that led to overcrowding in the camps.

Conditions in Andersonville, Georgia, got so bad that the Union prisoners were reduced to starvation, gang-murder and even cannibalism.

But Grant knew that the Confederates would run out of men first, and this led directly to Lee's surrender.

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