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v “Five hundred men moved silently toward the gates that would shut out life and hope for most of them forever. Quarter of a mile from the railroad we came into a massive palisade with great squared logs standing upright in the ground. Fires blazed up and showed us a section of these and two massive wooden gates with heavy iron hinges and bolts. They swung open as we stood there and we passed through into the space beyond. We were at Andersonville.” – Private John McElroy. A “camp” where laws were left standing at the vast wooden gate, a “camp” where the instinct to survive was the only proposal in the minds of the P.O.W’s; Georgia’s very own Andersonville was the most horrible Confederate Prisoner containment camp built during the Civil War. A total of 14,005 Union Soldiers entered Camp Sumter and of these, 12,912 died from disease, malnutrition, overcrowding, or exposure. The camp was lead by a Swedish man named Captain Hennery Wirz. They said he had a screw loose and maybe that is why Sumter was what it was.
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Title: kill
Words: 885
Rating: None
Pages: 3.5
submitted by: cool11
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