Andersonville Project

This was a project for history. We had to discuss a topic from the civil war. My topic was Andersonville.

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[JimmyEatWorld55]

How was the south supposed to afford those things when almost all the money was in the north.

Andersonville was a terrible place, and I am in no way trying to justify it.

Anyways the union had terrible prison's too. It's just the simple fact that the victors get to write history.

[teebee1984]

The music is REALLY annoying, when someone is speaking there should be no background noise

[hellojonesy]

Thank You! The fact is that approx another 4000 prisoners died from Andersonville soonafter their release or exchange. While most civil war prisons were awful, none could compare with Andersonville. My great grandfather, Cornelius Bowman survived Andersonville. He came out at 6' tall and about 80 lbs. (spent 8 months recovering) While I never met him, I knew his son (my grandfather) very well and heard enough about Andersonville to make a grown man sob. I think it was worse than we can imagine

[ravens5192052]

@360000mike the federal government sounds way worse back then it sounds like it was like in RDR

[ravens5192052]

@musketman58 but how old was he when he starved to death you know for sure?

[ravens5192052]

@musketman58 what was your great-great grandfather's name and i cant imagine the pain and suffering he went through and you agree the war had a effect on both sides, but this was why the wild wild west went well into the 1900s.

[TheVlg214]

I had two ancestors in Yankee prisons. Your view is warped!!!!

[musketman58]

Andersonville was indeed a horrible place, a hell on earth. However, the Federals had places just as bad, if not worse. My great-great grandfather, was in the 25th Texas Cavalry, CSA, and was captured at Arkansas Post in January, 1863. He was sent to Camp Butler, Illinois, P.O.W. camp, where he was slowly starved to death by his captors. He died of starvation in April, 1863. We know this because the family has a copy of his diary, kept during the war, and returned to his widow in Texas in 1870.

[360000mike]

"Rebel prisoners in our hands are to be subjected to a treatment finding its parallels only in the conduct of savage tribes and resulting in the death of multitudes by the slow but designed process of starvation & by mortal diseases occasioned by insufficient and unhealthy food and wanton exposure of their persons to the inclemency of the weather." Preamble H.R. 97 passed both Houses & was real. The Fed government "did" try to eliminate the Southern race by starvation & other means of death.

[Badoldgalaxie]

Loose the music

[Cincinnatus1869]

apologists .

[frankmiller95]

The victor makes the morality because the loser cannot.