If you look at the records of some of the units, you will find that many of them lost more men to disease than to hostile fire. In fact some of the units lost a higher percentage of their men to disease than did the prisons. Edward G. -----Original Message----- From: Sue <morgana@ghg.net> To: CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com <CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, December 14, 1998 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [CW-POW-L] Some statistics on a few of the POW Camps >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 > >