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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.
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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 • Encyclopedia • www.yahoo.com
