No. they were not murdered right there, they were sent to POW camps like Camp Douglas or other "Yankee" camps where they received poor medical attention and nearly starvation rations. The South had a hard time feeding it's POW's because the South had little food to began with and because of the Northern blockades very few medical supplies to treat it's own wounded or sick let alone POW's. The south had justifiable reasons for Andersonville, the Yankee's only had meanness as a reason, for the treatment it gave Southern boys at places like Camp Douglas.

@@theodorezudyk5311 The Civil War POW camps is a history subject in itself; a history of competitive vindictiveness without justifiable reasons, the "winners" being Elmira and Andersonville. However, the prisoners captured in the Appomattox campaign, including those at Fort Gregg, weren't held for long; nearly all Confederate prisoners released by June 1865. The South being mainly rural and agricultural was never a food importer. What the US army and navy achieved by blockade and deliberate destruction was the disruption of arms and food supplies to the Confederate armies. Nevertheless, some food was always available in the South, away from the frontline. Civil War POW camps can be compared with contemporary urban slum districts. Overcrowding, insanitary conditions, lack of medicines and medical treatment, and the prevalence of epidemics of waterborn contagious diseases were common but only understood by a few people. By 1900, these matters were better understood, and by 1920 the death rate from these causes had become greatly reduced. A general remark: People have to learn from their mistakes. The North made plenty and learned plenty; could the South ever learn when its mind became clouded with "lost cause" excuses?

@@theodorezudyk5311 I lost a GG grandpaw and an uncle at Camp Douglas, Ill and another uncle at Elmira NY.

During that time because of lack of manpower they were calling up the junior reserves essentially 16 and 17yr old boys and smaller army groups from farther south. The Confederate navy was reorganizing into infantry units and peices of the army lf Tennessee we scattered all over the Carolinas and Georgia. Unfortunately for Lee most of these men ended up under Johnston in North Carolina until a month or so after Lees surrender. Theirs a book called Last Stand in the Carolinas and it goes into detail about the calling up of the younger and reorganizing troops. Hope that helps sorry for the book i typed out.