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1 Military Prisons during the Civil War l Jade Nagy and Brittany Oliver
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Military Prisons during the Civil War

l Jade Nagy and Brittany Oliver

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Alton Prison l established Feb 9, 1862

l can hold up to 1,750 prisoners

l located in the Illinois Pennitentiary

l 12,000 soldiers imprisoned

l 6-10 men died each day.

l 3 men per cell

l overcrowded and not sanitary

l many prisoners died from Rubella, Smallpox, and Pneumonia.

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Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia

l First prison to hold union soldiers

l Holds 150 prisonersl Prisoners were sent to this

person because of overcrowding.

l Many prisoners had to be transferred to other prisoners further south.

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Camp Oglethorpel Macon, North

Carolina

l prisoners included officers and enlisted men.

l they slept in sheds and stalls.

l Camp Oglethorpe was a storage depot and militia camp on old faire grounds. Then the confederate government wanted to use it as a prison camp.

l City officials did not like the idea of holding prisoners.

l The mayor at the time, Mayor Thompson, wanted to use the market and the flower house to hold the prisoners.

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Johnson's Island Prisonl Johnson’s Island Prison is located in

Sandusky Bay, Ohio.

l It ran from 1862-1865

l The prison existed for 40 months.

l 10,000 men were on the island

l Most were confederate officers. There were 26 generals, privates, bushwhackers, guerrilas, and citizens for belonging to the union.

l The maximum numb er of prisoners at a time were 3,224 in January of 1864.

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Alcatraz Island Military Prison

l History: 1850-1933

l In 1859 the first inmates started arriving

l Population of prisoners increasee during the Civil War.

l Prisoners included prisoners from other posts and civilians accused of treason.

l In 1902 there were 461 inmates

l In 1904 there were 761 inmates

l Many buildings had to be built around Alcatraz to hold all of the inmates.


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