andersonville
in Richmond
Andersonville was an atrocity. Its commandant was convicted of war crimes after the war.
Andersonville, Georgia, was the most overcrowded and harsh military prison camp during the Civil War. It was officially named Camp Sumter but this name is rarely used. Conditions were so harsh that after the war, Union soldiers tried and executed the commander of the camp (Henry Wirz) for war crimes. At least 12,913 Union soldiers died in the camp, of about 45,000 who were sent there.
Andersonville - scandalously overcrowded.
Melanie was not sent to a concentration camp. Although she was sent to overcrowded Jewish homes in Belgrade. Melanie was not sent to a concentration camp. Although she was sent to overcrowded Jewish homes in Belgrade.
Andersonville - scandalously overcrowded, horrific.
Andersonville, near Columbus, Georgia. Conditions were so bad (starvation, gang warfare, cannibalism) that the commandant was hanged after the armistice, even though the Confederates had been promised that there would be no persecutions.
Andersonville, near Columbus, Georgia. Conditions were so bad (starvation, gang warfare, cannibalism) that the commandant was hanged after the armistice, even though the Confederates had been promised that there would be no persecutions.
The scandalously overcrowded camp at Andersonville in Georgia. The starvation was so bad that the Union prisoners formed rival gangs and there was murder and cannibalism. The commandant of the camp was the only Confederate hanged after the war, not counting the Surratt gang who plotted Lincoln's assassination.
Andersonville, in Georgia.. However, there were northern prisons nearly as bad.
Camp Douglas, Chicago, was a Union prison camp for Confederate captives during the American civil war.
Wirz - the only Confederate hanged for war-crimes.