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What was the name of the union military prison where confederate soldiers were held captive and where was it located?
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There was more than one Union camp for captured Confederates. All of them were located in the most barren, unhealthy places which could be found. There was one on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River below Philadelphia, which was all mud, called Fort Delaware. There was one on the tip of a peninsula jutting out into Chesapeake Bay, at Point Lookout, Maryland. There was a bad one at Elmira, New York. There was one on another peninsula sticking out into Lake Erie at Sandusky, Ohio. There was one in Chicago, Camp Douglas, by Lake Michigan. There is a city park there now, on top of the unmarked graves of Confederates. Many captured southern officers were held in Fort Warren, on an island in Boston Harbor.
Its a little known fact today that more Confederate POWs died in Yankee camps than Yankees died in southern ones. The percentage of southerners who died as prisoners is higher than the percentage of Yankees as well. All one hears about today is Andersonville - the most notorious southern camp. But the south could not even feed its own armies. The north vindictively located their camps in the most awful places they could find, and then deliberately withheld food and medical care, so the Rebels starved in the midst of plenty.
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