Exactly, Josie...when taken as a whole, (all the prison camps averaged in together), there is something like a 13% fatality rate...the Union camps average just about as badly as the confederate, and they didn't have the distribution problems that the confederates did...Elmira in particular, was a horrible prison to be sent to...and the Tombs in NY was also quite awful... The reality of it was the POW experience for all of our ancestors was a dark chapter in our country's history...and hopefully, we will be able to shed some light on it with this list. Sue morgana@ghg.net Josephine Lindsay Bass wrote: > > I have heard all my life at school, on TV, in movies, etc how > horrible Andersonville was and never heard anything about UNION Prisons. As > you said in your post "Andersonville, GA (CSA), the most notorious of all > of the prison camps". > > I have a pretty good grip on this issue, and am glad to post some of this > valuable info, i hope you all are interested. > > I have these percentages below: And much documentation to show that Union > Prisons were just as notorius as Andersonville at least to us Southerns. > > The death percentage 24% at Andersonville, and 25% at Point Lookout, Union > Prison and 44% at Elmira, NY Union Prison. > > josie > > At 06:14 PM 12/14/98 -0600, Sue wrote: > >These are some statistics on some of the most notorious prison > >camps that I had records at hand for. Not all camps were this > >bad, by the way, but these were among the worst. > > > >Camp Douglas, IL (USA) - used as a POW camp from 62-65. Was > >designed with a max capacity for 6000 men, but during its most > >crowded they managed to cram in over 12,000. Almost 4500 people > >died here. > > > >Salisbury, NC (CSA) Designed for 2,000. At one point, over > >10,000 people were jammed into it. It was used from 61-65. > > > >Elmira, NY (USA) Its capacity was designed for 5000, but at one > >point they managed to get over 9400 people into it. Although > >they only used it for two years, just under 3,000 people died > >here. > > > >Andersonville, GA (CSA), the most notorious of all of the prison camps. > Although set up to contain 10,000 men, at its worst it held over 32000. > During its use during '64 and'65, 12,919 people died. > > > >Point Lookout, MD (USA) During the three years it was used, 3,500 > >men died here. At its most crowded, it held about twice its > >design capability, topping off at 22,000 at its most dense. > > > >Danville, VA (CSA) Designed for 3700, at its most croweded, they > >put 4000 men in here. Used from '63-'65, just under 1300 men > >died here. > > > >Camp Morton, IN (USA) Set up for 2000, it reached a maximum of > >5000 POWs. Used from '62 - '65, around 1700 deaths were > >recorded. > > > > > > > >Sue > >morgana@ghg.net > > > > > > > jbass@digital.net > 216 Beach Park Lane > Cape Canaveral, FL 32920-5003 > > Home of The *HARRISON* Repository & *MY FAMILY* > http://moon.ouhsc.edu/rbonner/harintro.htm > My Family WWW: http://moon.ouhsc.edu/rbonner/index.htm > LINDSAY & HARRISON Surnames & CSA-HISTORY Roots Mail List > > Data Managed by beautiful daughter Becky Bass Bonner and me, Josephine > Lindsay Bass