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In the first years of the war, both sides were equally keen to exchange prisoners and bring them home, for the sake of civilian morale.
When Grant became General-in-Chief in March 1864, he knew that the Confederates were running out of recruits, and ended the system of prisoner exchange.
This meant that the prison camps became more and more overcrowded, and conditions were unspeakable.
At Andersonville, Georgia, Northern prisoners were so badly starved that they formed rival gangs and murdered each other. The commandant of this camp was sentenced to death as a war criminal.
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What are some quotes from the civil war prison camps?
Their is none
What did prisoners do in prison camps during civil war?
died
Where was one of the worst confederate civil war prison camps?
Andersonville, Georgia
What killed most soilders during the civil war?
Disease, especially in the prison-camps.
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.
How many men died in prison camps during the civil war?
OVER 1 million
Where was one of the worst confederate civil prison camps?
Andersonville, Georgia
What was the civil war prison?
the famous ciil war prison was the Andersonville Prison
What was different about civil war camps compared to army camps today?
The difference between the civil war camps compared to the army camps today was technology. The intelligence and the types of weapons used are some of the differences.
How did armies surrender in the civil war?
Stack arms, then either go to the prison camps or give parole. Officers were sometimes allowed to keep their side-arms.
How many prisoners of war did the US Civil War produce?
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.
How were the conditions in the prisoner-of-war camps during the civil war?
bad
