Andersonville Prison

Chelda Block

March 12,2009

Escape

Such high rate that dead men’s body was placed in front of his tent until a prisoner came an picked him up.

Some prisoners used the high death rate as an tool in their escapes.

Facts

Andersonville Prison was one of the largest of many established prison camps during the American Civil War.

Pen was covered 16 ½ acres of land enclosed by a 15 foot high stockade of hewn pine legs.

Shelters

Prisoners made their own shelters.

Prisoners dug holes they covered the bottom with pine needles.

Sickness&

Disease

March 1 and August 31, 1864 there were 4,529 deaths caused by diarrhea and dysentery

Main causes of death were scuvry, typhoid , dysentery, diarrhea, smallpox, and hospital gangrene.

Hold how many inmates?

Housed up to ten thousand inmates a number of them was frozen to death.

Inmates at the Andersonville Prison camp for captured Union soldiers in Georgia suffered miserably.

More Facts

Andersonville Prison was the camp with the worst reputation.

Drinking water came from one tiny creek that also served as a sewer.

100 men per day died in civil war prison camps.

Terrible conditions at Civil War prison camps caused much suffering and death.

Work Citied

Littell, McDougal. creating America. 2002. Houghton Mifflin

fonner, Erica. civil war chronicle. 2002. New York

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