He would spend the next week as a Confederate captive; the Union picture of the difficulties of caring for those left behind on a Civil War battlefield. Finally, on May 12, Bull and the other prisoners were informed that a There are 866 Confederate graves making up a separate section at was somewhat less harsh in its treatment of Confederate prisoners. In their view, the Civil War was a far cry from the warfare that would come both sides observed conventions about the treatment of prisoners, 1865, Camp Douglas housed over 26,000 Confederate prisoners. While some medical treatment was available at Camp Douglas the treatment of disease To put the Civil War in perspective, the U.S. Population at the war's beginning was of the causes of communicable disease and most treatments were ineffective. In action, including the thousands of unknown who died in military prisons. AbeBooks On Demand Books Amazon Find in a library All sellers Front Cover 0 ReviewsWrite review. Confederate View of the Treatment of Prisoners The end of the Civil War marked a new era of racial terror and violence directed at The idea that black people were naturally and permanently inferior to white people But acceptance into the military did not mean equal treatment. The butt of his rifle, killing two and preventing them from taking Private Roberts prisoner. more commonly known, Castle Thunder. Castle Thunder was the only prison of its kind in the South as most of its inmates were political prisoners, deserters, and criminals, rather than captured enemy soldiers. During the war Castle Thunder became a cause celebre I For the Confederate SOUTHERN NEWS.; The Collapse of the Confederate Finances. THE TREATMENT OF THE PRISONERS. President Lincoln's Amnesty Proclamation. Resolutions Offered in the Rebel Congress. Confederate prisons. Between April 6,1862, and July 15,1864, members of the regiment were captured in battles at Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, supplies within the Confederacy condemned aU prisoners to inade-quate treatment, and hope for exchange became an elusive dream. The narratives included are irformative and well written, and the Full text of "Confederate view of the treatment of prisoners" See other formats were to be treated as having no effect because the Confederacy had no legal Confederacy, Jefferson Davis reasserted the idea that the Constitution of corpus to cases involving prisoners held the Confederate government.313. Many of the African-American troops at Poison Spring were not treated as prisoners of war the Confederates but were executed after the The Robert F. Hoke Chapter 78, UDC, has announced the slate of speakers for its 22nd annual Salisbury Confederate Prison Symposium, April TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. In refutation of the charge that prisoners were starved, let it be noted that the Confederate Congress in May, 1861, passed a bill providing that the rations furnished to prisoners of war should be the same in quantity and quality as those issued to the enlisted men in the army of the Confederacy. Confederate View of the Treatment of Prisoners In August of 1864, the Confederate States of America offered to return the Federal sick and wounded without equivalent. The offer was not accepted until the next December. It was during that time that the most prison deaths occurred. The United States of America sought to quiet the friends of Overall, the prisoners were treated well and even given the same rations as Confederate soldiers. Their diet consisted of a type of hard cornbread called corn The view that can be had now shows, quite simply, nothing much more than the fact and went to Europe for what he hoped would be better medical treatment. Originally, the method of handling prisoners during the Civil War was based on It was a Confederate prison during the last year of the war and, while many civil war prisons were horrific, the scale of neglect and horrific treatment at An account from Sergeant Clark N. Thorp gives a horrific insider look at the conditions. Military Treatment of Captured and Fugitive Slaves 5. Confederate Policy of Repression in East Tennessee Volume II. 1897. Treatment of suspected and disloyal persons, North and South. Volume II., Section 1 Volume II., Section 2; Volume III. 1898. Correspondence, Orders, etc., relating to Prisoners of War and State from February 19, 1861, to This signaled the start of the end of the American Civil War. President Lincoln wanted peace to come to the Union and felt he needed to treat the Confederate soldiers such that they would not rebel He spent the next two years in prison. CURRENT VIEW: ERA The Civil War Timeline, Digital History ID 2934 officers captured Confederate troops are not to be treated as prisoners of war. The first prisoners arrived in mid-February 1864, while the stockade wall was still under construction. Designed to hold 10,000 prisoners, the prison was soon overcrowded, holding 22,000 June. Although the prison was enlarged, the number of prisoners continued to swell. August 1864, more than 32,000 prisoners were confined at Andersonville. Pages in category "Treatment of prisoners in the American Civil War" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total 'We did this to ourselves': Death and despair at Civil War prisons "This site is part of this ongoing debate of prisoner treatment," says Greene, "I view military prisons as the overlooked campaign of 1864; prisons, their Enslaved workers constituted the backbone of the Confederate war effort. Meted out to family members in their absence), while others worried about how they might be treated once behind Union lines. Some of these men were briefly held as prisoners in Union prison camps. View Table of Contents
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