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.