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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Confederate prisons. (search)
Confederate prisons. Libby, Belle Isle, Castle Thunder, and Danville prisons, in Virginia; Salisbury prison, in North Carolina; Andersonville and Millen prisons, in Georgia; and Charleston, in South The prison-pen at Millen. Carolina, were the principal places of confinement of Union prisoners during the Civil War. In these prisons the captives sometimes endured terrible suffering from cold, hunger, filth, and cruel personal treatment. Libby prison had six rooms, each 100 feet in length and 40 in breadth. At one time these held 1,200 Union officers of every grade, from a lieutenant to a brigadier-general. They were allowed no other place in which to cook, eat, wash and dry their clothes and their persons, sleep, and take exercise. Ten feet by two feet was all the space each man might claim. Their money, watches, and sometimes part of their clothing were taken from them when they went in. For a long time they were not allowed a seat of any kind to sit upon. The board floo