During the Civil War, some 50,000 Americans perished in military prisons, victims of overcrowding and inadequate diet!.
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True False 10 points for best answerer! :)Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: that would be TRUEWww@QuestionHome@Com True!. The worst of the prisons was the Southern prison of Andersonville!. (Look at my handle!. "Forgive but do not forget" was used by the survivors of the prison to show their willingness to forgive their Southern captors but they would not forget it happened nor would they let it happen again!. This was the start of the prison reform movement in the USA)!. also, the commander of the Prison was tried for war crimes in how he ran the prison!. He was found guilty and executed!. This also was a first and he is considered the first war criminal tried after a war was over!.Www@QuestionHome@Com True, more union prisoners died in the south from poor diet and they had less prisoners where as less rebel prisoners died in the north and there were more confederate pow'sWww@QuestionHome@Com true see andersonville and douglassWww@QuestionHome@Com |