0
Still curious? Ask our experts.
Chat with our AI personalities
FranI've made my fair share of mistakes, and if I can help you avoid a few, I'd sure like to try.
Chat with Fran
BeauYou're doing better than you think!
Chat with Beau
DevinI've poured enough drinks to know that people don't always want advice—they just want to talk.
Chat with DevinAdd your answer:
Earn +20 ptsQ: Why general grant cut off prisoner exchanges in the south?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
Continue Learning about Military History
How did general grant plan to defeat the south?
Because he is awesome
Who were the leaders of the North and South Armies?
North: General Ulysses S. Grant South: General Robert E. Lee
Why was the civil war more devastating in the south?
Yes, because nearly all the battles were in the South, and in the last stages, Sherman was waging 'total war' on civilians. However, after Grant ended prisoner-exchanges, the Union prisoners in Andersonville suffered extreme privations, worse than anything the Confederate prisoners experienced in Northern jails.
Who led the raids that distract confederate troops enabling general grant to land his troops south of Vicksburg?
Ambrose Burnside led the raids that distracted Confederate troops, enabling General Grant to land his troops south of Vicksburg.
Which was a main part of the South's Military Strategy during the civil War?
Grant's ending of the system of prisoner-exchange. It meant the Confederates were doomed to run out of men.
Trending Questions
What was the relationship between Japans totalitarian government and it's military expansion campaigns in the 20th century?
How to send cookies to soldiers in Iraq?
What reason in WWl caused WWll?
What elements of world war 1 distinguished it from earlier wars?
Did the Mongols abandon their Nomadic lifestyle?
In which year Dr B Pakem became the vice-chancellor of NEHU?
What groups was massacred by the ottoman empire during world war 1?
Why did Colonel Shaw want to lead the Attack on Fort Wagner when he knew it would probably mean many of them would die?
What man from Wisconsin is depicted on the Iwo Jima statue?
Who was Private Jean Baptiste Lepage?
What happened after the late heavy bombardment?
The opposie of defeat?
What is the title of IWO JIMA?
Analyzes three wars 1864 1866 1870-1871 which resulted in partial unification focusing on political military vision leadership of Otto von Bismarck?
Where did most of the fighting during the US Civil War take place?
What is a ilitaration?
Is there helicopter in World War 2?
1920 how did the Invasion of the Ruhr help increase Hitlers rise to power?
What is the importance of the Battle of Valley Forge?
What three flags flew over sutters fort in 1846?
Copyright ©2025 Infospace Holdings LLC, A System1 Company. All Rights Reserved. The material on this site can not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Answers.