Civil War Prison Camps
Civil War Prison Camps | American Battlefield Trust
After Atlanta fell to Union forces in September 1864, Confederates forces scrabbled to scatter the 30,000 Union soldiers imprisoned at Andersonville Prison in ...
American Civil War prison camps - Wikipedia
Main camps ; Confederate, Camp Lawton · Millen, Georgia ; Confederate, Belle Isle · Richmond, Virginia ; Confederate, Blackshear Prison · Blackshear, Georgia.
Preserving Places of Captivity: Civil War Prisons in the National Parks
A small number of Confederate soldiers and political prisoners were held at Fortress Monroe in Virginia. Additionally, after 1863 it was an ...
Treatment of prisoners of war during the American Civil War
Today we stand here at Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter Military Prison. During the Civil War, it was one of the most famous prisons as it continues to ...
Prisoner of War Experience - National Park Service
Fort Pulaski. On October 23, 1864, approximately 540 of the Charleston prisoners were marched into Fort Pulaski. The fort was hardly ready. The ...
Civil War Prisons - New Georgia Encyclopedia
Camp Lawton was a stockade structure enclosing forty-two acres, making it the largest Civil War prison in terms of area. Set only a mile off the Augusta ...
The Prison Camp at Andersonville - Civil War Series - NPS History
The Prison Camp at Andersonville ... In the very beginning of the Civil War, prisoners of war were exchanged right on the battlefield, a private for a private, a ...
The Civil War Prisoner Camp That Became a Place of Horror
The Confederate Civil War prisoner camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was an utter nightmare for the many soldiers held within.
Civil War Prison - Digital Exhibits - Washington State University
The south was home to some as the largest and most historic prison camps in the war, such as Andersonville. Some southern civil war prisons had inmate death ...
Andersonville Prison | American Battlefield Trust
Andersonville, or Camp Sumter as it was known officially, held more prisoners at any given time than any of the other Confederate military prisons.
"Hellmira": The Union's Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp
Join Derek Maxfield on October 12th in Appomattox as he contextualizes the rise of prison camps during the Civil War, explores the failed ...
The Prison Camp at Andersonville - Civil War Series - NPS History
Over the course of its existence the prison housed upwards of 30,000. The prisoners stayed in barracks. The prison had an inadequate sanitary system, sometimes ...
Firsthand Account of Private Prescott Tracy, Civil War POW
The Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was the most infamous of the American Civil War. Subject to disease, massive overcrowding, and lack of ...
But What About Those Northern Prison Camps? - Kevin M. Levin
The camp has been described as “America's Auschwitz” and “the deadliest ground of the Civil War.” Conditions at Union prisoner-of-war camps ...
Andersonville Prison - Wikipedia
The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Andersonville Prison a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp ...
Prisons of the Civil War: An Enduring Controversy
From 1861 to 1865, more than 150 prison camps were established by the Union and Confederate governments. Estimates of the total numbers of prisoners taken and ...
Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities of Northern ...
Confederate prisoners' suffering and death were due to a number of factors, but it would seem that Yankee apathy and malice were rarely among them. In fact, ...
Civil War Diary: “This Hell-Upon-Earth of a Prison” | Timeless
Heaven forbid I should ever see a worse place.” Gibson recorded the passing of comrades in his diary, sometimes adding bitter recriminations ...
Civil War | Elmira Prison Camp | United States
The Friends of Elmira Civil War Prison Camp is a non-profit 503c based in Elmira, New York. It is the mission of the Friends of the Elmira Civil War Prison ...
Andersonville Prison : A Place Of Horror | Project Past - YouTube
Camp Sumter, commonly known as Andersonville, was a Confederate Prisoner of war camp during the American Civil War. It opened in February of ...