https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv Created by Nick Teutsch en-us 2017-09-26 16:57:31 UTC 2017-09-28 16:26:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dartstarget.png nick_teutsch https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191363956 The American Civil War lasted from  Apr 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865

]]> 2017-09-26 17:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191363956 nick_teutsch https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191371068 2017-09-26 17:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191371068 nick_teutsch https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191372274 McElroy, John “Andersonville: Prisoner of War Camp.” National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/11andersonville/11andersonville.htm.

https://www.civilwaracademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Andersonville-Prison-August-17th-1864.jpg
“Camp Douglas Prisoners, 1864.”Http://Www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/Exhibits/Ahd/civilwar42.Html, Digital History, 2002.

"The 150th Anniversary of the Elmira Prison Camp,"  http://www.chemunghistory.com/campweb.jpg, Chemung History, 1997-2017.

https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/civil-war-casualties
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/07/0701_030701_civilwarprisons.html, National Geographic,

Flavion, Gary. “Civil War Prison Camps.” Civil War Trust, Civil War Trust, 10 Apr. 2016, www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/civil-war-prison-camps.

]]> 2017-09-26 17:17:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191372274 nick_teutsch https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191382289 There were over 150 prison camps spread among the United States. Almost each one was packed to capacity with no space to spare. ]]> 2017-09-26 17:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191382289 nick_teutsch https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191660924 Although precise figures may never be known, an estimated 56,000 men perished in Civil War prisons, a casualty rate far greater than any battle during the war's bloody tenure.]]> 2017-09-27 13:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191660924 nick_teutsch https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191667771 Andersonville Prison (also known as Camp Sumter in Georgia)-Known to be most horrific one. In the 14 months of its existence, 45,000 prisoners were received , and of these nearly 13,000 died.

Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois. It was also known as the “Andersonville of the North." One prisoner in seven died, for a total of 4,200 deaths by 1865. 

]]> 2017-09-27 13:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191667771 nick_teutsch https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191681125 Elmira Prison in New York, with a death rate of 25%, that is nearly equal that of Andersonville.

]]> 2017-09-27 14:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/191681125 nick_teutsch https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/192040984 "We are now beginning to feel to some extent the vengeance of the Government of the United States.They have stopped our rations of sugar, coffee, and candles. We get nothing but bread and meat with a few beans."  --Confederate prisoner R. F. Webb, written in his diary while held in a Northern camp.]]> 2017-09-28 12:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/192040984 nick_teutsch https://padlet.com/nick_teutsch/gb9vv3tmd7pv/wish/192056852 "Five hundred men moved silently toward the gates that would shut out life and hope for most of them forever." --From John McElroy, prisoner within the Andersonville Prison.

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