American Civil War assistance please.?
I have stumbled upon the old series on TV called North and South. From my previous knowledge, I seem to remember that there was a notorious (for all the wrong reasons) prison camp run by the North? Run by the South? There was also a book written about it. Anyone know the name of (a) the camp and (b) the book. Thanks. lol
Andersonville was the most notorius and has had the most exposure though there were several others.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWandersonville.htm
“”The decision of Ulysses S. Grant resulted in a rapid increase in the number of prisoners and so it was decided to build Andersonville Prison in Georgia. It was to be the Confederate’s largest prison for captured soldiers. In April, 1864, General John Henry Winder, who was now in charge of all Union Army prisoners east of the Mississippi, appointed Henry Wirz as commandant of this new prison camp.
By August, 1864, there were 32,000 Union Army prisoners in Andersonville. The Confederate authorities did not provide enough food for the prison and men began to die of starvation. The water became polluted and disease was a constant problem. Of the 49,485 prisoners who entered the camp, nearly 13,000 died from disease and malnutrition.
When the Union Army arrived in Andersonville in May, 1865, photographs of the prisoners were taken and the following month they appeared in Harper’s Weekly. The photographs caused considerable anger and calls were made for the people responsible to be punished for these crimes. It was eventually decided to charge General Robert Lee, James Seddon, the Secretary of War, and several other Confederate generals and politicians with “conspiring to injure the health and destroy the lives of United States soldiers held as prisoners by the Confederate States”.”"
http://www.civilwarhome.com/prisons.htm
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