"American Civil War Prison Camps<span> were operated by both the </span>Union<span> and the </span>Confederacy<span> to handle the 409,000 soldiers captured during the war, 1861–1865. The Record and Pension Office in 1901 counted 211,000 Northerners who were captured. In 1861-63 most were immediately paroled; after the parole exchange system broke down in 1863, about 195,000 went to prison camps. Some tried to escape but few succeeded"</span>
Andersonville Gergia's Historic once had one of the worst confederate Civil War prision camps.
Explanation:
Andersonville Georgia once hosted "Camp Sumter" a conederate prisioner-of-war camp, that was commanded by Captain Henry Wirz. It was a placed overcrowded exceding by more than four times its occupancy capacity, it had poor water supply that propitiated the spread and development of diseases, it didn't have enough food rationing, and it was on unsanitary conditions. It was so bad, that after the war the victors charged war crimes on Captain Henry Wirz. The major causes of death in that place were: diarreah, scurvy, and dysentery.
