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This episode discusses the horrific conditions faced by Union soldiers at Andersonville Prison during the Civil War.

Andersonville Prison was created to house Union soldiers during the Civil War. Prisoner negotiations ceased, creating an influx of med being detained. Georgia was one of the sites that new prisons were erected to house these men. There the conditions were horrifying. Men were not given clothes, housing, or adequate nutrition. Men suffered from scurvy and fleas. They dealt with chain gangs and the stockade. As the war ended, almost half of the men that died in the south, died as prisoners of Andersonville. Sources: https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/camp_sumter_history.htm https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/andersonville-prison https://artsandculture.google.com/story/daily-life-at-andersonville-prison-georgia-public-broadcasting/GgUBE3JvqMsmIQ?hl=en https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/andersonville-prison/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOci27e2V8g https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2021/09/the-maps-of-andersonville-prison/ https://npshistory.com/publications/civil_war_series/5/sec1.htm James Madison Page. 1908. The True Story of Andersonville Prison. A defense of Major Henry Wirz Charles Rivers Editors. 2026. Andersonville Prison. The…

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