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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.
About how many men for both the North and the South were taken as prisoners and placed in camps during the Civil War?
400,000 men
What are some quotes from the civil war prison camps?
Their is none
Where was one of the worst confederate civil war prison camps?
Andersonville, Georgia
What happened to southern prisoners located at Elmira New York during the Civil War?
The Union prison located at Elmira, NY , it's told, was every bit as bad as the reputation held by the Confederate prison for Union prisoners at Andersonville, Georgia. Some called it "Hellmira".
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 men for both the North and the South were taken as prisoners and placed in camps during the Civil War?
400,000
What killed most soilders during the civil war?
Disease, especially in the prison-camps.
How many men died in prison camps during the civil war?
OVER 1 million
About how many men for both the North and the South were taken as prisoners and placed in camps during the Civil War?
400,000 men
What did the prisoners during the civil war eat?
Each other - in the last few weeks at Andersonville, when the Confederate troops and civilians were starving, and the prisoners were right at the bottom of the food chain. The prison-camps saw far worse atrocities than anything seen on a battlefield - gang murder and eventually cannibalism.
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.
What are some quotes from the civil war prison camps?
Their is none
How many prisoners could fit in a prison barracks building during the Civil War at Fort Delaware?
i depends on the size of the barrack
Where was one of the worst confederate civil prison camps?
Andersonville, Georgia
What happened in Andersville Georgia during the American civil war?
Andersonville, Georgia was the location of the Southern prison-camp that accommodated Union troops in the last year of the war (after Grant ended the system of prisoner exchange). It was notorious for overcrowding and starvation. At its peak, this POW camp had 30,000 prisoners. The fact is, there were prison camps in the North for Confederate prisoners nearly as bad as Andersonville, but since the North won the war this part of history is seldom written about. After the US Civil War,only one Confederate was executed for war crimes. This was the prison camp commander Henry Wirz.
Where was one of the worst confederate civil war prison camps?
Andersonville, Georgia
