For the first two years of the war, most captured soldiers were given parole and exchanged. Many returned to fight again. After the Confederate defeat at Vicksburg, the tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers were back in the fight within a few months. President Lincoln regarded this as foolish. He ordered a stop to the exchanges. Confederate prisoners were sent to camps in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Like the Yankees, the Confederates sent them to miserable prison camps. The most notable Confederate camp was Camp Sumter near Andersonville, Georgia, where thousands of Union men died or suffered permanent illness during the 18 months the camp was in operation.
The soldiers were sacrificed or taken as slaves.
nobody could leave the union
13,000 Union Soldiers died of disease and malnutrition at the Confederate prison in Andersonville, Georgia
The starving Confederates allegedely ate the rations that were cooking on the Union fires in the camps they had just captured.
They called the Confederate soldiers the Rebels or "Rebs"
Captured confederate soldiers
The soldiers were sacrificed or taken as slaves.
After they were captured they were sent to their own death bed to die.
at Apppomattox Court House it was said the rebs could keep their horses to be used for farming.
nobody could leave the union
American soldiers from the North and Confederate soldiers from the South, shot at each other and died.
Richmond, the capitol of the Confederate States, was captured by the US military in 1865 causing the Confederate government to flee southward and later dissolve.
In the book, Silas Wiggin is captured by Confederate soldiers and forced to join their army. He is eventually rescued by the protagonist, Homer P. Figg.
13,000 Union Soldiers died of disease and malnutrition at the Confederate prison in Andersonville, Georgia
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The starving Confederates allegedely ate the rations that were cooking on the Union fires in the camps they had just captured.
They called the Confederate soldiers the Rebels or "Rebs"