AncestorNews: Civil War Prisons

By Nancy Hendrickson Premium

As Civil War researchers know, Andersonville was one of the most notorious Confederate prisons. During the year and a half that Andersonville was in operation, nearly 13,000 Union soldiers died there, mainly of malnutrition and disease. Imprisonment at Andersonville was often synonymous with a death sentence. If your...

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