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Where is a extremely overcrowded prison in a confederate camp?
in Richmond
What confederate camp was a prison very overcrowded in?
Andersonville was an atrocity. Its commandant was convicted of war crimes after the war.
What Confederate camp had an overcrowded camp?
andersonville
What was an extremely overcrowded prison that was located in this Confederate camp?
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.
Where was the extremely overcrowded prison in the Confederate camp?
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.
Where was the worst prison camp in the south located?
Andersonville - scandalously overcrowded, horrific.
Camp Douglas prison camp?
Camp Douglas, Chicago, was a Union prison camp for Confederate captives during the American civil war.
Who was the crying confederate soldier in the good bad and ugly?
who was the crying confederate prisoner when tucco was getting a beaten in the prison camp
Worst confederate prison camp?
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.
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.
Was Andersonville was a Union Civil War prison camp?
Andersonville Prison was a confederate prison that was notorious for its cruelty towards union prisoners. I believe it was located in Richmond, VA.
What was the name of the Confederate prison in Georgia with poor conditions?
Andersonville was the most notorious Confederate Prison for Union prisoners of war. They killed the most amount of people in the Civil War and it was the worst camp out of both the Union and Confederate sides. So you can lick my butthole!
