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They were treated badly and were killed
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∙ 12y agoCamp life typically consisted of lots of drilling-- most soldiers were awoken promptly at 5 AM or 6 AM in winter by their superior officers. They would have breakfast rations, (if available) and then procede with drilling, or training to be better soldiers.
Besides drilling, a soldier's days would be filled with cleaning the camp, performing chores like chopping and collecting firewood, and whatever else he could do to pass the time. Many soldiers played cards, gambled, sang songs, told stories and jokes, and wrote letters to their loved ones.
Camp life could be very boring, indeed. It was usually very dirty and riddled with filth, and sleeping quarters were usually very crowded and smelled with body odor; most soldiers did not get the chance to bathe very often.
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∙ 13y agoCivil war prison camps were disease ridden infested locations, most of which were not designed or constructed for the confinement of human beings, much less able to handle the dietary and sanitary needs of such an environment. Open sewers, rampant diseas outbreaks and illness from a lack of food were so common that soldier would often seek to hasten their own death when stricken by one of these life ending ailments.
It has been estimated that more than 55,000 men lost their lives in these prisons. Even though attempted escapes routinely resulted in the recaptured prisoners facing various forms of inhumane torture and death, most prisoners continued to believe they had a much better chance of survival through escape, rather than remaining imprisoned.
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∙ 13y agoterribly. this question deeply depends on which camp you are talking about. most were generally decent, but after grant stopped the POW exchange, the conditions deeply worsened. we're talking starvation, sickness, brutality, and a terrible lifestyle.
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∙ 15y agoa prison camp is a camp where prisoners-of-war go to
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∙ 13y agoThey were in poor conditions that lead to illness, which caused more deaths than on the battlefields.
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∙ 14y agoCaptured enemy solders. Union prison camps held captured Confederate solders and Confederate prison camps held captured Union solders.
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∙ 14y agoBoth sides ran equally brutal prisons
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What was Henry Wirz position during the civil war?
He was the commandant of the Andersonville prisoner of war camp and the first person to be tried for war crimes after the Civil War.
How where civil war prisoners of war treated at south prison camps?
Both the Union and the Confederacy treated prisoner very badly in prison camps. They were starved, lived in horribly unhealthy conditions, abused and killed. After the Civil War, the commander of one Southern prison camp was tried and hanged. No such penalties were applied to comanders of the Northern prsioner camps.
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.
Did slaves get paid before the civil war?
Fairly well, but if taken as a POW they were treated harshly. Andersonville was a confederate prisoner of war camp in the final12 months of the civil war. War crimes were committed in this prison of union soldiers. They had lack of food, water, and lived in unsanitary conditions. Of the 45,000 men held there nearly 13,000 died from scurvy, diarrhea, and dysentery.
What was used as film during the Civil War to make photographs?
Glass, chemically treated (wet-plate negative) and then exposed to light was used.
How were the conditions in the prisoner-of-war camps during the civil war?
bad
How were slaves in the south treated during the civil war?
they were treated bad
What was Henry Wirz position during the civil war?
He was the commandant of the Andersonville prisoner of war camp and the first person to be tried for war crimes after the Civil War.
How were the unionist treated during the civil war?
waz up
How did Lincolns presidential power increase during the civil war?
President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus (a writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge) during the Civil War.
Who fought but were treated poorly during the civil war?
African Americans
How were the unionists treated during the Texas civil war?
waz up
What was the use of Xanthorrhiza during the US Civil War?
It was used as a medicine in the Civil War. It treated infections from wounds. No antibiotics were available then!
What is prisoner of war?
A soldier taken as a prisoner during war.
Where did gangrene occurred during the civil war e.g. in prisoner of war camps on the frontline?
anywhere there was an open wound......! do you know what causes gangrene?
How were African Americas treated during the Civil War?
Of course they were slaves. But during the civil War, they were treated very badly in the south because of discrimination. Some slaves were even killed for trying to run away. In the north, they were not slaves but still discriminated.
How were women treated during the civil war?
With decency and control. Not much rights as they have now though
