Prisoner Treatment in Andersonville Prison
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In the South, General John Henry Winder, supervisor for all the POW camps east of the Mississippi, once happily observed that more Union soldiers were dying in his prisons than on the battlefield (Martin). Of all these prisons, the most infamous was undoubtedly Andersonville. Located in Sumter County, Georgia, the Andersonville prison, initially designed for 10,000 men, saw its population swell to more than 33,000 over the course of the war, thus exacerbating living conditions and exhausting supplies (Martin). By the end of the Civil War, nearly 13,000 prisoners at Andersonville had died there (Waltrip). It is important to note that the treatment of prisoners during the Civil War was less than civil on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. In the North as well as the South, it has been observed that the historian will find plenty of "disease, filth, depression, disorder, vermin, poor food, lack of elementary sanitation and, as a result, intolerable misery and death on an appalling scale" (Randall). Volumes of prisoners were the natural result of a protracted conflict; this phenomenon was exaggerated considerably when the prisoner exchange program was allowed to break down. It was, in fact, General Ulysses S. Grant who decided to discontinue the prisoner exchange with the South (Martin). In his view, every Rebel prisoner who was exchanged immediately became another active soldier who was able to continue fighting against the North; this was unacceptable. Other ac
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