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Category- Andersonville Prison Camp
Family Tree
February 1864 Andersonville
- Nearly 14,000 people are buried in Andersonville
- There was 150 prison camps on both sides during the Civil War, and Andersonville was one of the worsts
- Despite how bad Andersonville was thousands of men did survive, and told there stories
- One survivor R.K. Sneden was a prisoner there until April 1864, after he was out he would draw maps of Andersonville with descriptions
https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/5252882

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Category- Henry Wirz
National Park Service
Captain Henry Wirz
- Henry Wirz first worked at Cabin Teele, there was hundreds of slaves there and he didn't care about them at all, just like the slaves at Andersonville
- He also worked at Henry's Factory, he began to appear in conversations when General John Winter noticed him
- General John Winter was in charge of Richardson's Prison System, he put Henry in a high rank in his newspaper, which caused him to get the job working at Andersonville
https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/captain_henry_wirz.htm

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http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/andersonville-prison#Prison-Conditions
how the prisoners contributed to the conditions

the prisoners hanged six of the head leaders at the camp

so, there was a new police force that were prisoners and they tried to force the soldiers to take care of men under them

the soldiers that were forced to take care of the prisoners that were sick often robbed the hospital for supplies and food

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http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/andersonville-prison#Prison-Conditions
prison life
prisoners couldn't do anything to improve the conditions at the camp

put firewood at the walls that ruined their opportunity to escape

the wells were not accessible so they couldn't escape there because they used to try to escape or just hide there

camp inmates sometimes tried to prey upon each other

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Category- Clara Barton
National Park Service
Clara Barton and Andersonville
- Clara Barton was a nurse during the Civil War, during the war she began getting letter about peoples' family members
- She would try to find out what happened to missing soldiers who "disappeared" at Andersonville
- She toured the nation showing people artifacts from the camp, and told what was happening/the conditions
https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/clara_barton.htm

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http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/andersonville-prison#Prison-Conditions
conditions

lacked supplies
"local black labor"
sold people
a creek ran through the camp
over 30000 prisoners and only supposed to be 10000
became hard to findspace
suffered from incects
filth
disease
contaminated water by the creek

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When officers didnt do want they were expsected to do they would get hanged and beaten in front of everyone
when the word of andersonvile leaked out the leader of the camps were embaressed and mortifyed
the leader was charged with murder
their were over 100 people to testify in court
most of the men and women weighted less than 100 pounds!!
trains would come and take the prisoners with almlost half of the prison in 1864 the prison hit 33,000 3 times it capacity their was a death every 11 minuets

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http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/02/27/history/post-perspective/american-atrocity-the-andersonville-prison-camp.html
jeff davis
he was the rebel commander of the Andersonville prison

he wasn't sent to trial-people were expecting the government to hang him

he was indicated of treason because he made the conditions very bad there

he was sent to prison and after two years, the gov gave him a $100000 bail

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from the lack of good nution and food the people in the camps woorld develop muscle difficulties and other problems with their bones and skin and brain

once their was a thunderstorm that was so bad that some logs fell down that were used to keep the prisoners inside the camp and they were so weak they couldn't even escape in time

the # of peiple started to increas than any other camp that was desinded for 10,00 turned into almost 20,000 imaging how most people got along

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Category- Conditions
George Town College
Civil War Prison Camps and Exchanges
By: Charlie Warger
- The first two days the camp opened Captain Henri Wirz refused to feed the prisoners any food
- The food portions kept on getting lower and lower until it was nothing
- 29% of the people at the Andersonville prison camp died
- For those who became ill at Andersonville there was very little (barely any help) provided
- In Andersonville there was a group of prisoners known as raiders, they would steal, kill, and murder to get what they wanted, and no one really stopped it from happening
https://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/htallant/courses/his312/cwarger/prisons.htm

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http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/02/27/history/post-perspective/american-atrocity-the-andersonville-prison-camp.html
newspaper on andersonville

people put andersonville in the newspaper and they got a bad reputation

the people that wrote the article were captured and put in andersonville

they also put that the creators of Andersonville would be going to trial in Washington

they put a poem in the article to show what the people are experiencing at the camps:
“He faded day by day—a prayer
Upon his lips for one sweet breath—
What wonder when the reeking air
Was chill and dank with dews of death.
But why delay my tale—he died
And careless hands bore him away,
For what was one when, side by side,
Hundreds were dying every day?”

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http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/02/27/history/post-perspective/american-atrocity-the-andersonville-prison-camp.html
numbers
after 15 months, 45000 soilders had been there

13000 of them died
each day over 100 men died

the population grew within just a few months

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Category- What people thought about the camp & facts
The Saturday Evening Post
American Civil War Atrocity
By: Jeff Nilsson
- Union prisoners who could no longer fit in Virginia's prison camps were brought to Andersonville
- When the news spread to the North about the conditions they were enraged
- When the camp first opened there was nothing blocking prisoners from the blistering sun and the long rainy winters
- Some people would argue that the Confederacy couldn't provide for the prisoners because they could barely provide for themselves, others would disagree
http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/02/27/history/post-perspective/american-atrocity-the-andersonville-prison-camp.html

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http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/02/27/history/post-perspective/american-atrocity-the-andersonville-prison-camp.html
protection
the prisoners there had no protection whatsoever from the sun, or long rains

the water was from a stream so they never knew if it was actually clean

they used that water for baithing and cooking and drinking

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, 32,000 prisoners were being held in an area designed for 10,000 soldiers. During the 14 months the prison existed, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined there.

Almost 13,000 of the prisoners died in the overcrowded conditions from such causes as disease, malnutrition, and exposure to the weather. The dead were buried in shallow trenches near the camp. After the war, Captain Wirz was tried and executed for war crimes.

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Category- Deaths
Grolier Online
- Andersonville prison cam went on from February 1864 until April 1865
- At one time the death rate was 150 men dying a day
- The prison camp is now a park maintained by the U.S. government
- An investigating medical doctor recommended the removal of most prisoners, so then all but 4,000 men were brought to a different camp where conditions were less harsh
http://go.grolier.com/

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1. Tent flys made by attaching two blankets to a ridgepole

2. Crude lean-tos made by piecing together strips of cloth onto a pole frame

3. A kind of teepee made by draping a blanket over a short vertical pole

4. Aimple holes dug vertically into the ground

5. Holes that were dug down and then sideways to create small caves

6. Adobe-like structures made with mud bricks roofed with a blanket, overcoat or blouse

7. Huts made of split pine boards.

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The sergeants of detachments and divisions must report to the commandant of the prison any short-coming of rations.

1. No prisoner must cross the dead line, nor speak to any sentinel on post nor attempt to buy or sell anything to a sentinel. The sentinel having orders to fire on anyone crossing the dead line or attempting to speak to or trade with them.

2. It is the duty of the detachment sergeants to carry any men who should die in quarters immediately to the receiving. hospital. Giving the hospital clerk the name, rank, company, regiment, and state of division.

3. To prevent stealing in camp the prisoners have a right to elect a chief of police who will select as many men as he may deem necessary to assist him. He and the sergeants of the divisions have a right to punish any man who is detected stealing. The punishment shall be shaving of one half the head and a number of lashes not exceeding fifty.

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Kristiana ciotti #5 rules + times @andersonvile prison camp site and campous

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Kristiana ciotti #5 rules + times @andersonvile prison camp site and campous

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1. There will be two daily Roll Calls at the Prison, one at eight o'clock a.m. and one at four o'clock p.m.

2. The prisoners are divided into detachments of one hundred men each, five detachments constitutes a Division.

3. Each division must occupy the ground assigned them for encampment, no huts or tents must be erected outside of the camping grounds.

4. Each detachment must elect a sergeant; the five sergeants of the division will appoint one of their number to draw rations for the whole division.

5. The sergeants are responsible for the cleanliness of their encampment. They will each day make a detail from among their men for policing the camp throughout; any man refusing to do police duty will be punished by the sergts by balling him the rest of the day.

6. No rations will be issued to any division unless all the men are present at roll call. The sergeants in charge of the detachment must report every absentee. lfhe fails to do so and it turns out that the missing man has escaped, he will be put in close confinement until the missing man is recaptured.

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http://www.historynet.com/andersonville-prison-camp
people there
there are many people and they were way over limits

the fence was very high and it made them feel a hundred times more claustrophobic then they already did

the conditions went up rapidly because of this

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CategoryAbout the prison
- The first prisoners were brought to Andersonville in January 1864 for the first few months about 400 people arrived per day
- The outside of the prison was surrounded by pine logs about 15-17 feet tall
- About 19 feet from the pine logs (on the inside) there was a fence called the deadline, if anyone tried to go pass it they would get shot
https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/andersonville-prison

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doctors
when legs or other body parts were amputated they usually died after because of the hospital gangrene

the doctors would not, wash their hands before operation and dint clean their tools before and after

they even used the dirty water with waste for cleaning out washing out blood

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Cramped
http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Family_Life_During_the_Civil_War#
it was supposed to be a
smaller camp that can only hold 10000 people but the camp had over 33000 people

they were very cramped in the camp and some people dies because there was so many people and it got very claustrophobic

people also died of other kinds of diseases at the camps for different reasons

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kristiana ciotti #3 Anderson prisonville book

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kristiana ciotti #3 Anderson prisonville book

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when they tired to escape most tried to disguise  themselves as the guards but they would never   make it out

when they tried to dig themselves out they couldn't find shovels so they would use oyster shells a pocket knife or a scrap of metal just to get out

they would get killed

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Category- About the camp
The Civil War- Volume 8
Emily Hill- ED
Published in 2004 by Grolier, in Connecticut
- The camp was extremely crowded, you could barely move anywhere
- The camp commander, Henry Wirz was tried by a U.S. military tribunal, for killing prisoners during war, he was guilty and was hung in late 1865
- By August 1864 100 people were dying a day
DIFFERENT SOURCE
- "Since the day I was born, I never saw such misery"- prisoner, Michigan ( cavalryman)

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the people at Andersonville had to drink water from a stream that was filled with human feces and waste

the food they gave them was raw  and  gave them no firewood to cook it

they could clean themselves because they gave them no soap , and they need to get clean because they had pine smoke on them

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https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/andersonville-prison
confederate housing couldnt provide food, housing, medical care

they put their soldiers first and they had trouble just feeding them, let alone the opposite sides prisoners

bad economic conditions in the south which made the conditions worse

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Category- Why conditions were bad/what they were
- There was African Americans, Native Americans, men from foreign countries, and a few women
- They quickly realized how bad they were going to be treated, and how bad the conditions were
- When a prisoner died they would be carried out to a "deadhouse"
- Prisoners spent a lot of time trying to mend ripped clothing, and had to use sand as a substitute for soap
- The worst condition was probably the lack of food and water. They got one-quarter pound of meat, and cornmeal. This was usually all uncooked, but prisoners couldn't always cook it because they didn't have firewood
https://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/11andersonville/11facts2.htm

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kristiana ciotti: 1 prison camps(andersonville)

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kristiana ciotti: 1 prison camps(andersonville)

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there was little food for the captured soldiers because the railroad was taken out

all of them suffered and they had no tents or blankets for cold nights

If someone died at Jacksonville they would hold a simple funeral, they would tie their toes to the other foot  , they tagged they would make a tag with their name on it

when people were sick they would feed them corn bread that was almost death defying so it would make them sick with diarrhea and die sooner or later

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Category- Facts/Conditions
-The Andersonville prison was officially called Camp Sumter
- 13,000 prisoners were perished there (died/killed)
-Prisoners there lived in huts made of wood and blankets called "shebangs"
-There was a creek for them to get water but, it became infected with diseases and human waste
-Andersonville was meant to hold only 10,000 but after six months more than three times that were incarcerated (imprisoned there)
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/andersonville

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our question : HOW DID THE CONDITIONS AT THE ANDERSONVILLE PRISON CAMP IMPACT PRISONERS DURING THE CIVIL WAR

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our question : HOW DID THE CONDITIONS AT THE ANDERSONVILLE PRISON CAMP IMPACT PRISONERS DURING THE CIVIL WAR