The Norths Andersonville(Camp Douglas)!! Union Death Camps Largest Mass Grave in West

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Alton Civil War Prison was established February 9, 1862 when the first Confederate prisoners were delivered there. The prison was housed in the abandoned Illinois State Penitentiary built in 1831 and located near the Mississippi River in Alton Illinois. The prison was built in the style of a fortress, made of stone with walls 30 feet high. Initially the prison held 24 cells. Overcrowding!..... Through modern archeology digs, the size of these cells has been determined to be 4 feet wide by 7 feet 4 inches long. Reports indicate there were 3 men in each cell! During the 3 years of use during the Civil War, almost 12,000 Confederate soldiers were incarcerated at Alton Prison. Disease, scurvy, fever and general malnutrition plagued the prisoners but it was the dreaded smallpox which killed 6-10 prisoners per day during an outbreak in Alton Prison. The smallpox epidemic became so bad that prisoners were sent to a quarantine hospital on an island across the Mississippi River. The exact death toll is not known but reports estimate 1500-2200 Confederate soldiers died within the walls of this infamous military prison. Due to neglect of the old cemetery, all graves of those who died at Alton Prison are unidentifiable. There is a monument, however, erected by the U.S. Government. The granite monument is 40 feet tall surrounded by an iron fence. Bronze plaques adorn the monument and are engraved with names and military units of all known Confederates who found their final resting place in the cemetery at Alton. Inscribed on one of the monument plaques: "Erected by the United States to mark the burial place of 1354 Confederate Soldiers who died here and at the Smallpox Hospital on the adjacent island while prisoners of war and whose graves cannot now be identified"

Camp Alton

During 3 years around 12,000 confederate soldiers were imprisoned here an estimated 1,500-2000 Died in this camp alone.

Camp Chase

Around 10,000 Confederate soldiers were held here and 2,000 died in this Camp

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The first prisoners arrived in February 1862. Conditions were horrible and it is reported that 1 in 5 prisoners within those walls died. Punishment by officials and guards was unusually cruel. Confederate soldiers starved to death as food rations were withheld and many, being deprived of blankets while living in tents, froze to death in the severe weather.

CAMP DOUGLAS

The loss of 1,091 lives in only four months was heaviest for any like period in the camp's history, and equaled the deaths at the highest rate of Andersonville from February to May, 1864. Yet, it is the name of Andersonville that burns in infamy, while there exists a northern counterpart of little shame."

The handling of the dead rivals stories of Nazi Germany. The largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere is filled with....the bodies of Camp Douglas dead, 4200 known and 1800 unknown. No one should be allowed to speak of Andersonville until they have absorbed the horror of Douglas.

http://www.censusdiggins.com/civil_war_prisons.html

Camp Elmira

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Of the 12,122 soldiers imprisoned at Elmira, 2,963 died of sickness, exposure and associated causes. The camp was officially closed on July 5, 1865. All that remains today of Elmira Prison is a well kept Cemetery along the banks of the Chemung River

3,000 dead out of 12,000

The camps continue on

Camp randal
Fort Delaware
Fort Jefferson
Fort Mchenry
Old capital Prison
Point lookout
Rock Island
Johnsons Island
Ohio state penitentiary

http://www.censusdiggins.com/prison_camp_douglas.html

http://www.censusdiggins.com/prison_alton.html

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