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Andersonville: The Last Depot

Andersonville: The Last Depot

Marvel, William

Paperback

Series: Civil War America

Armed ForcesCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 0807857815
ISBN13: 9780807857816
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Aug 7 2006
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died. Most contemporary accounts placed the blame for the tragedy squarely on the shoulders of the Confederates who administered the prison or on a conspiracy of higher-ranking officials. According to William Marvel, virulent disease and severe shortages of vegetables, medical supplies, and other necessities combined to create a crisis beyond the captors' control. He also argues that the tragedy was aggravated by the Union decision to suspend prisoner exchanges, which meant that many men who might have returned home were instead left to sicken and die in captivity.

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