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American Civil War prison camps Wikipedia ~ American Civil War Prison Camps were operated by both the Union and the Confederacy to handle the 409000 soldiers captured during the war from 1861 to 1865 The Record and Pension Office in 1901 counted 211000 Northerners who were captured In 186163 most were immediately paroled

Civil War Prison Camps American Battlefield Trust ~ Prison camps during the Civil War were potentially more dangerous and more terrifying than the battles themselves A soldier who survived his ordeal in a camp often bore deep psychological scars and physical maladies that may or may not have healed in time

Prison Camps during the Civil War ~ The most infamous prison camp was Andersonville a Confederate prison outside Macon Georgia which was opened in February of 1864 For the first two years of the war both sides exchanged prisoners at certain intervals keeping prisons manageable in terms of size

Prison Camps Of The Civil War AMERICAN HERITAGE ~ These figures indicate that by and large neither side had much reason to point any accusing fingers at the other side Whether they were situated in the North or in the South prison camps in the Civil War were almost incredibly lethal and no refinement of figuring leaves one side looking much better than the other

Civil War Prison Camps Civil War Academy ~ Andersonville Prison August 17th 1864 The name Andersonville became synonymous with the horrors of Civil War prison camps but in reality prison camps on both sides were poorly managed horrendously overcrowded and diseaseridden

Civil War Fact The Prison Camps Were Total Hell The ~ Andersonville officially known as Camp Sumter held more prisoners at any given time than any other Confederate military prison according to the Civil War Trust more than 45000 Union soldiers were confined there and 13000 died from disease poor sanitation malnutrition overcrowding or exposure

Civil War Prison Camps ~ Civil War prison camps were notoriously filthy and diseaseridden camps warehouses forts and prisons that held an estimated 400000 captured Civil War soldiers as well as spies and political prisoners during the war Some of these prisoners included members of John Wilkes Booth’s family

Union Prisoner of War Camps American Civil War ~ Union Prisoner of War Camps in the Civil War