1. The
Atrocities
of the Civil War

2. The Massacre at Fort Pillow, TN (April 12, 1864)

3. Nathan Bedford Forrest (Captured Fort Pillow)
262 African-Americans
295 white Union soldiers.
Ordered black soldiers murdered after they surrendered! [many white soldiers killed as well]
Became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war.

4. Confederate Prison Camp at Point Lookout, MD
Planned to hold 10,000 men.
Had almost 50,000 at one time.

5. Point Lookout Memorial of 4,000 Dead Rebel Prisoners

6. Camp Douglas (Chicago)
“80 Acres of Hell”
Northern prison camp with the highest mortality rate of all Union Civil War prisons
1 in 5 prisoners died.
Prisoners were deprived of clothing to discourage escapes. 
Many wore sacks with head and arm holes cut out; few had underwear. 
Blankets confiscated.   
The loss of 1,091 lives in only four months was heaviest for any like period in the camp's history, and equaled the deaths at the highest rate of Andersonville from February to May, 1864. 

7. Alton Illinois (North) Overcrowded fortress
During the 3 years of use during the Civil War, almost 12,000 Confederate soldiers were incarcerated at Alton Prison.  
Disease, scurvy, fever and general malnutrition plagued the prisoners but it was the dreaded smallpox which killed 6-10 prisoners per day. 
The exact death toll is not known but reports estimate
Size 4 feet wide by 7 feet 4 inches long. 3 men in each cell.

8. Andersonville Georgia (South)
overcrowding, starvation, disease, scurvy, and cruelty
Originally intended to hold 10,000 men, Andersonville at one time held over 33,000 men
Death rate at Andersonville was the highest of all Civil War prisons. 
13,700 men died within thirteen months.
The superintendent of the prison was Captain Henry Wirz
Captain Wirz was tried and hanged by a military court after the war

9. Original Andersonville Plan

10. Union Prison Camp at Andersonville, GA

11. Distributing “Rations”

12. Survivors

13. Cold Harbor

14. Antietam

15. Union “Survivors”

16. Union Prisoner’s Record at Andersonville

17. Life & Death in Prison About 56,000 men perished in Civil War prisons
greater than any battle during the war
This was a result of ignorance of nutrition and proper sanitation on both sides of the conflict
Shortages of food, shelter, and clothing
More than 150 prisons were established during the war
Prison diets consisted of pickled beef, salt pork, corn meal, rice, or bean soup. The lack of fruits or vegetables often led to outbreaks of scurvy and other diseases… so people ate rats.

18. Burying Dead Union POWs

19. Andersonville Cemetery