civil war prison camps

Civil war prison camps were harsh and you didn't want to be their. more than 56,000 people died and got hurt in total in the prison camps.The high mortality rate was not deliberate, but the result of ignorance of nutrition and proper sanitation on both sides.

   

their were shortages of food, shelter, and clothing produced a cauldron of disease and death for inmates. 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 and other diseases. In many northern prisons hungry inmates hunted varmints sometimes making a sport of it.

Weapons in civil war

       In the civil war their were many different weapons used and during the civil war their were many different innovations including the early machine gun and grenades. The weapons were from knives and swards to automatic weaponry.

      The bladed weapons were knives which could be used for combat and to chop wood. swards for show and for combat. Sabers for training and fighting , and cutlass for naval fighting and on ground combat.

      The most advanced guns were the rapid fire machine guns and the grenade. those weapons came out at the end of the war but still killed many but it was very scary to be at the end of the barrel.