"Civil War Prison Camps" Topic

"Robert H. Kellog was 20 years old when he walked through the gates of Andersonville prison. He and his comrades had been captured during a bloody battle at Plymouth, North Carolina. In the depths of Georgia, they discovered that their hardships were far from over: "As we entered the place, a spectacle met our eyes that almost froze our blood with horror…before us were forms that had once been active and erect—stalwart men, now nothing but mere walking skeletons, covered with filth and vermin…Many of our men exclaimed with earnestness, 'Can this be hell?'"

Hardened veterans, scarcely strangers to the sting of battle, nevertheless found themselves ill-prepared for the horror and despondency awaiting them inside Civil War prison camps. While they often wrote frankly of the carnage wrought by bullets smashing limbs and grapeshot tearing ragged holes through advancing lines, many soldiers described their prisoner of war experiences as a more heinous undertaking altogether…."
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Armand

Andersonville is one of the scariest place I have every been. Sent chills up my spine just getting too close to the deathline.

A good account of Andersonville is in John Ransom's Diary:

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However, the dates of his entries are sometimes questionable.

Thanks!.

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Armand

I have one book and read another from former prisoners of Andersonville, both are close to each other yet from different men. And the movie of Andersonville is also close to these books. The book I own is in bad shape but readable and is from the 1870s.
There is a small version of Andersonville in Florence SC which is where most of the prisoners ended up after Andersonville was abandoned, but the book says was very close to what it was at Andersonville in layout and life.

Thanks also.

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Armand