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 **__Prison Camps__ **

 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/07/0701_030701_civilwarprisons.html
 * An estimate of 56,000 men perished in Civil War prisons, a casualty rate far greater than any battle.
 * Ignorance coupled with shortages of food, shelter, and clothing produced a cauldron.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">High mortality rate was not deliberate.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Prisons often had more horrible conditions then on the battle field.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">More than 150 prisons were established during the war.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">All were crowded.
 * <span style="color: #9d04ec; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Because of lacking sewer or sanitaion facilities, inmates turned "Stockade Creek" into a massive, disease ridden latrine.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Summer rainstorms would flood open sewers.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Prisons oppressive conditions claimed 13,000 lives by the war's end.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">The diets consists of pickled beef, salt pork, corn meal, rice, or bean soup.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">The lack of fruit or vegatables led to outbreaks of scurvy and other diseases.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Many northern prisons, hungry inmates hunted rats, sometimes making a sport out of it.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Diseases like small pox, typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and malaria were inflamed outbreaks of starvation and poor sanitation.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Sores that were left untreated led to gangrene-a disease curable only by amputation.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Out of all the diseases the most dangerous was depression.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Prisoners often wasted away. Some elected for suicide, taunting guards to shoot them.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">When snow was present, some had snowball fights.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Prisoners played games like chess, cards, and backgammon.
 * <span style="display: block; color: #890cd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Andersonville was by far the most notorious Civil War prison. It housed about 33,000 men at its peak-one of the largest "cities" of the Confederacy. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Inmates crowded into 26.5 acres (11 hectares) of muddy land, constructing "she bangs", or primitive shelters, from whatever material they could find.