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The conditions in the prison-camp at Andersonville, Georgia, must have been worse than any battlefield danger or hardship.
The overcrowding and starvation was so bad that the Union prisoners began to form rival gangs for sheer survival, eventually descending to cannibalism.
The photograph of the prisoner reduced to skin and bone, a couple of days from death, is as haunting as any image from the big campaigns.
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∙ 9y agoThere were many problems faced by infantrymen during the middle 1800s. These were the use of large caliber musket projectiles which shattered bones requiring amputation. Other problems came from inhumane and decrepit conditions of Union POWs such as their experience at the notorious Andersonville camp in Georgia.Ê
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