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-they had to do dirty work and deal with diseases
- operated from 1862-1865
- population of over 30,000 men

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- originally served as a training faculty for union soldiers.
- 18,000 Confederates were incarcerated there by the end of the war.

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- also known as "hellmira"
- infamous for its staggering death rate
- confederate prisoners were forced to sleep outside in the winter months
- one of the most deadly union prisons

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- originally constructed to hold political prisoners who were claimed to help out the confederacy
- in september 1864 rebel prisoners totaled to 4,000 men

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- was originally a civilian criminal prison
- overcrowding brought on horrifying conditions
- diseases killed prisoners like wild fire

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- used to be a cotton mill until converted into a prison in 1861
- in the early months of the prisons establishment the conditions were relatively good.
- by october 1864 the prison was starting to get overpopulated and the conditions went down hill