Prison+Camps

= Civil War Prison Camps =

//**In the Civil War Soldiers were traded as prisoners. Often a soldier for a soldier, captain for a captain and a sergeant for a sergeant. This system eventually broke down in the year of 1862. Major General of the North Union (John A. Dix) met with the confederate representative Major General Daniel H. Hill. Where they gave a decision to cartel slaves to one and an others unions. which was also approved by their superiors. Four days later it became known as the Dix-Hill Cartel. Ratifying the trading of prisoners form the war once again. In the mid-year it was refused by the Confederates. The reason was because the Confederates heard of the mistreating the blacks and threatening to treat them as slaves and re-own them.**//

//**Getting into prison life when the union was scarce of food it was said to be ignored the rate of food given per year. It is also said that 56,000 prisoners died from the lack of nutrition in camps. Although some people said the food disclosure was never intended. Yet ignorance resulted with shortages of food, shelter, and clothing that also produced an effective number of disease and death for the inmates. While past wars harbored similar prison conditions, the Civil War was unique in the sheer numbers of men confined. Since neither sides fighting had ever had the experience of taking care of men in captivity before, it extended their skills and knowledge of this subject.**//

//**An infamous prison camp located in the South was the Camp Sumter also known as Anderson ville Prison. Where it claims to have taken the lives of 29% of it's inmates. It was 150 prisons that were established in the civil war packed above the normal prisoner capacity. The Union prisoners had tent cities enclosed in big walls. As the South didn't build any structures, forced the prisoners into crowded stockades. However the Anderson ville prison in the South was by far the worst prison. Holding 33,000 men at it's peak. The length of 26.5 acres; and of course the land was filled with mud, construction of primitive shelters, from whatever resources for building them.Since there was no sewage and nothing was sanitary what-so-ever. This prison in no time was a disease ridden, latrine. Rainstorms mixed in with sewage water causing this strong stench. Even the visitors retched at the stench. So by the end of the Civil War 13,000 prisoners were killed by their own filth.**//

//**Prisoners ate pickled beef, salt pork, corn meal, rice, or bean soup. The lack of fruits or vegetables would often lead to outbreaks of scurvy and other diseases. Life as a prisoner in the North wasn't very sanitary either. Since hunger was scarce the prisoners of the North would hunt rats. Of course leading to diseases such as small pox, typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and malaria. Even though all those diseases were killing of people, the most effective was depression.**//

//**Although prisoners lives were very tough they maintained to keep their minds stable. With the plots of prison breakouts! It was in Illinois Camp Douglas, where the main method of escape was to charcoal their skin to blend in with the African American servants as they left the prison. This plot later got discontinued as the guards noticed the trend they abolished the African American labor from the prison. The next method took place at Libby River Prison in Richmond Virginia. This was one of the most widespread method used for escaping. Where 109 inmates dug a tunnel that was 60 feet deep, half were later recaptured. Escaping was punished severely throughout the war. If you were a caught prisoner there was massive amounts of punishment involved. They were tortured by being hung by their thumbs and many other forms of punishment.**//

media type="youtube" key="d6w0S0KmHws?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

media type="youtube" key="wQFhYkwTrCc?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

= =

__//**Resources**//__ __//**http://www.civilwarhome.com/prisons.htm**//__ __//**http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/07/0701_030701_civilwarprisons.html**//__ __//**http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6w0S0KmHws&feature=related**//__ __//**http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQFhYkwTrCc&feature=fvw**//__