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Many soldiers spent some time in prisoner of war camps during the US Civil War. Approximately 410,000 soldiers spent time in prison. Of these, 210,000 were Confederates, and 200,000 were Union soldiers. Approximately 56,000 in total died from disease in the prison camps. This was substantial and the figure is almost ten percent of all military deaths in the war.
Both conditions in the North and the South were dreadful. Most slept in holes scratched in the dirt. Drinking water came from one tiny creek that also served as a sewer. As many as 100 men died per day at Andersonville from starvation, disease and exposure. Around 50,000 men died in Civil War prison camps.
There was no prison camp. They were walked from FL to OK and many died. In OK they were put on a reservation.
Yes tousands did in horrible conditions.
Andersonville was one of the Confederate military prisons during the Civil War. During the 14 months the prison existed, almost 13,000 Union prisoners of war died from disease, malnutrition, and exposure.
Russians killed and mutilated approximately 80 million people, half of them at prison camps and disciplinary battalions.
Only 150 people died of salmonella during the civil war
Both conditions in the North and the South were dreadful. Most slept in holes scratched in the dirt. Drinking water came from one tiny creek that also served as a sewer. As many as 100 men died per day at Andersonville from starvation, disease and exposure. Around 50,000 men died in Civil War prison camps.
The civilians of your mather and your father
Anne Frank never escaped the camps, she died just before liberation. Including Westerbork she was in one prison camp or another for just about seven months.
Apprxomimately 164,000 Confederate soliers died from diseases during the American Civil War.