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Andersonville Prison

Conditions - Few had shoes - No shelter - Very few had clothes - Crowded - Disease - Exposure - Lack of medicine

Size - 32,000 prisoners

Dix-Hill Cartel - July 18, 1862 - providing for parole & exchange of prisoners - sumbitted & approved by their superiors - 4 days later formally signed & ratified - Failed mid-year/ for refusal of the confederate goverment to exchange black prisoners

Death Toll - August 1864 the deaths climbed up 100 people a day - 13,000 died total

Henry Wirz - charged with cruelty - charged with conspiracy to kill Union prisoners of war - Found guilty & hanged on November 10, 1865 - Hanged at the courtyard of old capitol prison

Libby Prison - Located in Richmond, Virginia - Opened April 1865 - held approx. 25,000 - Men slept on floor - Building was 4 storys & 8 rooms - Incorrectly called Tabacco Warehouse

Camp Chase -located in Columbus, Ohio - Training camp for new recruits - Became prison camp for confederate soilders - First prisoners arrived July 1861 - closed after war - 9,416 prisoners - Food: bacon, beef, coffee, sugar, & one loaf of bread each per day - 2,200 men died

Camp Douglas -located in Chicago, Illinois - becaeme prison of war camp February 1862 - housed 30,000 - stayed in barracks - Not enough clothing or blankets - 3,759 prisoners died - prisoners died from disease(typhus, dysentery, small pox)

Stockades - Wooden locks that you put your hands & head in -1,010 feet long & 780 feet wide -made out of pinelogs and hewn squares