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Civil War Prison Camps

Civil War Prison Camps. North & South. Alton Prison Camp Chase Camp Douglas Camp Randall Elmira Fort Delaware Fort Jefferson Fort McHenry Old Capitol Prison Point Lookout Rock Island. Union Camps. Andersonville Belle Isle Cahaba Prison Camp Ford Castle Pinckney Castle Thunder

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Civil War Prison Camps

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  1. Civil War Prison Camps North & South

  2. Alton Prison Camp Chase Camp Douglas Camp Randall Elmira Fort Delaware Fort Jefferson Fort McHenry Old Capitol Prison Point Lookout Rock Island Union Camps

  3. Andersonville Belle Isle Cahaba Prison Camp Ford Castle Pinckney Castle Thunder Danville Prison Libby Prison Salisbury Prison Confederate Camps

  4. Alton • Illinois (North) • Overcrowding fortress • During the 3 years of use during the Civil War, almost 12,000 Confederate soldiers were incarcerated at Alton Prison.   • Disease, scurvy, fever and general malnutrition plagued the prisoners but it was the dreaded smallpox which killed 6-10 prisoners per day during an outbreak in Alton Prison.  • The exact death toll is not known but reports estimate 1500-2200

  5. Andersonville • Georgia (South) • overcrowding, starvation, disease, scurvy, and cruelty • Originally intended to hold 10,000 men, Andersonville at one time held over 33,000 men • Death rate at Andersonville was the highest of all Civil War prisons.  • 13,700 men died within thirteen months! • The superintendent of the prison was Captain Henry Wirz • Captain Wirz was tried and hanged by a military court after the war

  6. Andersonville

  7. Captain Wirz’s Execution

  8. Life & Death in Prison • about 56,000 men perished in Civil War prisons • greater than any battle during the war • this was a result of ignorance of nutrition and proper sanitation on both sides of the conflict • shortages of food, shelter, and clothing • More than 150 prisons were established during the war • Prison diets consisted of pickled beef, salt pork, corn meal, rice, or bean soup. The lack of fruits or vegetables often led to outbreaks of scurvy and other diseases… so people ate RATS!

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