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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.