The Confederate Civil War prisoner camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was an utter nightmare for the many soldiers held within. It was dangerously overcrowded, rife with disease, and food and medical ...

Striking down children and adults, women and men, and blacks and whites, smallpox posed a grave threat in Civil War Virginia ... river to a Union camp. By the end of the war, nearly half ...

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...