#of the 45000 union prisoners held there almost 13000 died from diseases like scurvy and dysentery
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drive to georgia to look at an empty field where a bunch of people died of dysentery
#highly simplifying what actually happened#okay here. we. go.#the andersonville prison was a confederate pow camp during the last 14 months of the civil war#its commander henry wirz was tried and executed for war crimes#the prison was overcrowded it lacked water and food and had VERY unsanitary conditions#of the 45000 union prisoners held there almost 13000 died from diseases like scurvy and dysentery#also im REALLY not putting reblogs on this because i dont want the shit i just wrote in the tags to be rebloggable#considering the historical stuff i named dropped i dont want some weirdos in those tags finding it#i just want to do stupid comedy#but under my breath in the tags
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