Approximately twelve percent Death Rate for Confederate in Union POW camps. The death rates of Union soldiers was slightly higher in Confederate POW camps.
The mortality rate for Union soldiers at Andersonville was 29%.
First big Union victory, raising Grant's profile. Death of talented Confederate commander Sidney Johnston. Beginning of the end of Confederate fortunes in the West.
Death camps and railroadsThe camps were located close to rail lines as the victims were transported to the camps by rail's. where where they
Death in action of Confederate commander Sidney Johnston, and the arrival of Union reinforcements under Buell.
what wer some events that went on in the death camps in auschwitz? what wer some events that went on in the death camps in auschwitz?
Death camps were the Nazi's way to eliminate those who did not fit their mold. In all, there were seven death camps located in Europe.
Union 460 Confederate 387 That is just the death count from the battle. Total casualties (Killed, MIA, Etc.) Union 2896 Confederate 1982
Infection and diseases. Dysentary was the number one killer.
About 365,000 Union soldiers and 260,000 Confederate soldiers died during the Civil War. This includes all causes of death, not just combat.
Dr. Samuel Cooper served as the surgeon general of the Confederacy. Most importantly it was Cooper who warned that the Union's POW camp for Confederate soldiers, Fort Delaware, was unsanitary and causing the death of many Southern soldiers from disease and neglect.
He gassed most of them and the others he worked them to death.
Alexander Gardener used his camera to "lie" by moving some of the dead bodies of soldiers around after the Battle of Gettysburg. He did so because he wanted to make a dramatic picture. He wanted viewers to think that the Confederate troops suffered a dishonored, lonely death in a battlefield while the Union troops had a calm, and peaceful death.
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The main cause of death in the US Civil War was disease because of the unsanitary conditions in hospitals used to care for wounded soldiers. One of the greatest killers was Dysentery, a disease that killed over 45,000 Union soldiers and 50,000 Confederate soldiers. It is estimated that two thirds of all deaths among US Civil War soldiers were due to various diseases.
The American soldiers came to where the camps were at and was helping the Jews and the old concentration camps are now being used as a museum to all for remembrance of the holocaust
They died in dishoner and a lonely death
An early Soviet Union winter caused thousands of German soldiers to freeze to death :)
Since the battle of Tuckers Valley and Gregory bridge there were 13,450 Missouri soldier deaths and 1 General death. Confederate deaths: 6,450 Union deaths: 7,000