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Source: nps
-Located in Rock Island, Illinois.
-The Rock Island Confederate Cemetery is the only remaining section of Rock Island.
-Is the final resting place for 2,000 prisoners of war.
-Burial plot is almost square and has 20 rows of graves running north to south.

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Source: National Geographic
-Prisoners were only given foods such as pickled beef, salt pork, corn meal, rice, or bean soup.
-Lack of fruits and vegetables caused the soldiers to have outbreaks of diseases, such as scurvy.
-The poor sanitation lead to smallpox, typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and malaria.

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Source: www.civilwar.org
-Was only 20 years old when he and his comrades were captured during a bloody battle at Plymouth, North Carolina and brought to Andersonville.
-Kellogg said the men looked like "walking skeletons."
-The newly captured men were filled with horror when they saw Andersonville.
-Robert H. Kellogg published a book in 1865 called Life and Death in Rebel Prisons.

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Source: mycivilwar.com
-There were about 2 or 3 deaths each day at Libby.
-100 prisoners were kept in each room.
-In the fall of 1863, conditions at Libby Prison were so bad that other prison camps in Richmond had been turned into hospitals.

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Source: The Horrors of Andersonville: By Catherine Gourley
-When Ransom got out of Andersonville, he was so weak that he couldn't walk, so he was taken to a hospital.
-At the hospital, Ransom was still a prisoner of the Confederacy.
-Ransom weighed about 95 pounds (43 kg) when he was in the hospital.
-Sometimes, Ransom had breakdowns when he was healing.
-Ate only gruel (thin liquid food, such as oatmeal) at the start, because that was all his stomach could handle.

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Source: mycivilwar.com
-Libby Prison was a famous prison camp located in Richmond, Virginia.
-Libby measured 45,000 square feet, with 3 stories in the front of the building
-The Libby building was the only building in that area that had running water.
-The Libby Building was formerly known as the Libby & Son Ship Chandlers & Grocers.

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Henry Wirz Biography.com

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-Born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1823
-wanted to become a doctor but his family was too poor to pay
-was selected to run Andersonville in 1863
-He went on trial in 1865 for the conditions at Andersonville
-November 10, 1865 He was hanged for his crimes at andersonville

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Source: Worldbook
-Andersonville used to be a Cilvil War prison camp, but is now a memorial to honor United States prisoners of war.
-Andersonville now consists of a cemetery and a museum.
-The Andersonville National cemetery was established in 1865, when nurse Clara Barton and former prisoner Dorence Atwater visited Andersonville after the war. They came to identify the bodies of soldiers, and to mark graves for them.

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source: groiler 2004 connecticut no author
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-Converted warehouse in Richmond
-top 2 floors held union officers
-bottom floor held dangerous prisoners, spies and prisoners sentenced to death
-ground floor had offices, guard stations and kitchens

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source:William Best Hesseltine, Civil War Prisons: A Study in War Psychology (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998);
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-many prisoners died from Malaria, Scurvy and dysentery
-30% of the  prisoners taken there died
- the prison was 26 acres but horribly crowded causing sanitation issues

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Source: National Park Service
-Only 351 prisoners escaped from Andersonville, about 0.7% of all prisoners.
-It is thought that the unaccounted-for escapees died on the run.
-One prisoner, Nicholas Williams, was said to have made his escape on May 1, 1865, when less than 50 Union soldiers were left at Andersonville.

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source: groiler 2004 connecticut no author
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around 400,000 soldiers were held in prison camps throughout the war.

30k union men and 25k confederate men died at prison camps.

Many soldiers died from starvation and disease in prison camps

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Source: www.mycivilwar.com
-Nearly 25% of the 12,123 Confederate soldiers held in Elmira died.
-The camp lasted for only one year, but it had the highest death rate of any camp, north or south.
-July 6th, 1864 was when the first 400 prisoners arrived at Elmira.

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MLA:

"Andersonville National Historic Site." World Book Student, World Book, 2017, worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar749636. Accessed 15 May 2017.
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-Andersonville turned into a Memorial to honor prison camp victims.
-The prison consisted of a large area of open ground enclosed with a stockade of pine logs.
-Any prisoners inside the deadline consisted of a 19 foot long stretch of pine pylons and guards were instructed to shoot anyone one inside it

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source:Andersonville,History.com Staff,History.com,2009,Andersonville,http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/andersonville,May 12, 2017,A+E Networks

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Prisoners were delivered while the camp was under construction in 1864

no roof over their heads for shelter

built to hold 10K but held 30K

Commander of the camp executed April 9, 1865

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source: Civil war prison camps by gary flavion on civilwar.org
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-Brutal summers and winters
-Smallpox killed 300 inmates
-1,500 inmates died of exposure and other diseases
-held 11,764

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source: Civil war prison camps by gary flavion on civilwar.org
.Know as "Hellmira"
.Infamous for death rate
.held 3x its capacity which was 4,000 prisoners
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Source: The Horrors of Andersonville: By Catherine Gourley
-Born in 1843, died in 1919.
-Was a prisoner at Andersonville.
-Prided himself on not crying about the cruelty of Andersonville.
-The train that took him away from Andersonville stopped at Savannah, Georgia.

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Search, View, Print Union & Confederate Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865
.Smallpox killed 600 people in 3 months
.got down to -32 F in the winter
.10 days of rations every 10 days

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source:Search, View, Print Union & Confederate Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865
.In Illinois
.Housed 5,600 prisoners
.Wasn't ready when prisoners were delivered there
.Opened in 1863