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A Union Army soldier barely alive in Georgia on his release in 1865. Both Confederate and Union prisoners of war suffered great hardships during their captivity.. Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers.
Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy (2013) pp. 119–66; Rhodes, James, History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850, vol. V. New York: Macmillan, 1904. Silkenat, David. Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-4696 ...
Benton was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia.She grew up during racial segregation. [1] Her great-grandfather, George W. Washington, was an enslaved man from Sumter, South Carolina who served as a body servant to his enslaver's son, Lieutenant William Alexander McQueen, from 1862 to the last days of the American Civil War, [2] seeing the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the ...
After the war, Henry Wirz was convicted for war crimes related to the command of the camp. His trial was later regarded as unfair by several pro-confederacy groups, [6] and a monument in his honor has been erected in Andersonville by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. [7] [8] The town also served as a supply depot during the war period.
World War I and Confederate Soldier Monument: Memphis, Hall County Courthouse, G.W. Backus, designer marble dedicated March 18, 1924 [69] The monument includes two full sized figures, a CSA soldier and a World War I doughboy. [110] John H. Reagan Monument: Palestine, John H. Reagan Park Pompeo Coppini, sculptor bronze, concrete base
About 200 prisoners died due to the harsh Ohio winters, food and fuel shortages, and disease. Two hundred six were buried in the Confederate Cemetery located on the island. The cemetery was purchased in 1908 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Cincinnati. [10] Johnson's Island had one of the lowest mortality rates of any Civil War prison.
Camp Lawton or the Millen Prison was a stockade which held Union soldiers who been taken as prisoners-of-war during the American Civil War. Located beside the Augusta and Savannah Railroad right-of-way five miles north of what was then Millen Junction (now Millen ) in Burke County (since 1905 in Jenkins County ), the new prison facility was ...
Henry Wirz (born Hartmann Heinrich Wirz; November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was a Swiss-American convicted war criminal who served as a Confederate Army officer during the American Civil War. [1]