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The prison was overcrowded to four times its capacity, and had an inadequate water supply, inadequate food, and unsanitary conditions. Of the approximately 45,000 Union prisoners held at Camp Sumter during the war, nearly 13,000 (28%) died. The chief causes of death were scurvy, diarrhea, and dysentery.
Camp Sumter had not been constructed to its full plan, and was quickly overwhelmed by the influx of Union prisoners. Though wooden barracks were originally planned, the Confederates incarcerated the prisoners in a vast, rectangular, open-air stockade originally encompassing 16.5 acres (6.7 ha), which had been intended as only a temporary prison ...
Wirz was the former commandant of the Confederacy's Camp Sumter prisoner-of-war (POW) camp (commonly referred to as "Andersonville Prison", after a nearby town). Wirz was accused of conspiracy to injure the health of his prisoners, conspiracy to commit murder, torture, ordering guards to commit murder, allowing dogs to maul prisoners as a means ...
During a period of 14 months in Camp Sumter, located near Andersonville, Georgia, 13,000 (28%) of the 45,000 Union soldiers confined there died. [12] At Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois, 10% of its Confederate prisoners died during one cold winter month; and Elmira Prison in New York state, with a death rate of 25%, very nearly equaled that of ...
During the Civil War, the Confederate army established Camp Sumter at Andersonville to house incoming Union prisoners of war. The overcrowded Andersonville Prison was notorious for its bad conditions, and nearly 13,000 prisoners died there. [5] After the war, Henry Wirz was convicted for war crimes related to the command
The Department of Justice tracks these deaths but does not share them due to exemptions in federal public records laws. To fill this information gap, we've requested records, scoured news reports and asked for readers' help. So far, we've counted more than 800 deaths, but based on federal data, we suspect there have been more.
The Justice Department is failing to adequately and efficiently collect data about deaths in state prisons, with at least 990 incidents going uncounted by the federal government in fiscal year ...
The spate of deaths came as the prison dealt with chronic understaffing, lockdown conditions and a federal investigation into a suspected drug and cell phone smuggling ring by staff at the facility.