Winder and other Confederate leaders hoped to alleviate the inhumane overcrowding and the ever-worsening conditions ... The prison is unique among Civil War POW camps because the remains of ...

The Confederate Civil War prisoner camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was an utter nightmare for the many soldiers held within. It was dangerously overcrowded, rife with disease, and food and medical ...

Striking down children and adults, women and men, and blacks and whites, smallpox posed a grave threat in Civil War Virginia ... and children?” Conditions in contraband camps varied widely ...

A new study has found US Civil War-era tunnels and buildings buried beneath the famed Alcatraz island prison in San Francisco, California. Historians had long-suspected that the notorious federal ...