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U.S. Civil War Prison Camps Claimed Thousands

(EXCERPT) Yancey Hall for National Geographic News July 1, 2003

While the Civil War etched the names Gettysburg, Antietam, and
Vicksburg into the historical consciousness of the United States, a
more subversive skirmish went by almost unnoticed.

Although precise figures may never be known, an estimated 56,000 men
perished in Civil War prisons, a casualty rate comparable to that of
any battle during the war's bloody tenure.

The high mortality rate was not deliberate, but the result of
ignorance of nutrition and proper sanitation on both sides of the
conflict, according to scholars. "Intent and malice were never
intended," said James Robertson, a history professor at Virginia Tech,
in Blacksburg.

Yet ignorance—coupled with shortages of fo...

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