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Books: Revisiting the Horrors of a Civil War Prison, Through a Single Haunting Photo

By David Schonauer   Tuesday November 19, 2024


Above: Over 14 months, close to 13,000 Union soldiers died at Andersonville
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Roughly 110,000 Union soldiers and more than 426,000 Confederate soldiers were captured during the Civil War and held in 151 different prisoner of war camps, the most notorious of which was Camp Sumter in Southwest Georgia, better …


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