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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.


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Why did andersonville become the most infamous prison in the south?

Because Grant had ended the system of prisoner-exchange, so the prison-camps were bound to become overcrowded. Meanwhile, he had also told Sherman and Sheridan to devatstate the Southern farm country, to starve the Confederate armies. The governor of a prison-camp deep in Georgia was not likely to spare much food or sympathy for captured Union troops.


When did Betsys husband die?

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