American Civil War, Emaciated Union POW, 1864
Entitled: "Emaciated prisoner of war from Belle Isle, Richmond, Private William M. Smith of Co. D of 8th Kentucky Volunteers, at the General Hospital, Div. 1, Annapolis." American Civil War Prison Camps were operated by both the Union and the Confederacy to handle the soldiers captured (1861-65). Out of some million combatants over 409,000 were taken prisoner. Approximately 56,000 soldiers died in prisons during the war, accounting for almost 10% of all Civil War fatalities. The POWs died from wounds, from infectious diseases such as smallpox, or from illnesses related to substandard sanitary conditions, contaminated food and water, malnutrition, and from lack of proper clothing and shelter. Existing photographs of conditions in prison camps rival documentary evidence that would later emerge from the Holocaust.
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