Thursday, January 30, 2014

Andersonville

                Andersonville was one of the South's biggest prisons, if not the biggest. The rebel officers would issue small rations for the men, but only once a day. The prisoners had little to look forward to but this. The prisoners also couldn't have much firewood, just some small twigs to heat up and boil food. The prison camp's standards were terrible, and the mortality rate showed this. About to 30-50 northern prisoners died a day. There was very low morality and most men felt deserted because the northerners just left them there. Many died and few survived to be eventually freed at the end of the war.
https://www.advrider.com/andersonville/now



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