Prison diets consisted of pickled beef, salt pork, corn meal, rice, or bean soup. Lack of fruits or vegetables often led to outbreaks of scurvy. Starvation and poor sanitation inflamed outbreaks of diseases like smallpox.
Prison diets consisted of pickled beef, salt pork, corn meal, rice, or bean soup. Lack of fruits or vegetables often led to outbreaks of scurvy. Starvation and poor sanitation inflamed outbreaks of diseases like smallpox.
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Prison diets consisted of pickled beef, salt pork, corn meal, rice, or bean soup. Lack of fruits or vegetables often led to outbreaks of scurvy. Starvation and poor sanitation inflamed outbreaks of diseases like smallpox.
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Ours is not to reason why. Ours is but to do and die.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson Why so much death? • The Technology of weapons was ahead of the tactics • The medical care was crude and basic • Many soldiers died in the squalid living conditions in prison camps What were Prisoner Camps? • Captured enemies were held in Prisoner Camps • Both the North and the South had camps • An estimated 56,000 Americans died while in camps • There were over 150 of these camps across the north and the south What were some of the most important camps? • Andersonville - A southern camp in Virginia. – 55k men held at its peak – Almost 29% of all people in that camp died What were some of the most important camps?
• Elmira - A northern camp in New York
– 25% mortality rate How bad was life in the camps? • Prison diets consisted of pickled beef, salt pork, corn meal, rice, or bean soup. • The lack of fruits or vegetables often led to outbreaks of scurvy. How bad was life in the camps? • In northern prisons, hungry inmates hunted rats, sometimes making a sport of it. • Starvation and poor sanitation inflamed outbreaks of diseases like smallpox, typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and malaria. • Sores, left untreated, led to gangrene—a disease curable only by amputation.