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Essay on Andersonville Andersonville was a POW camp of the civil war controlled by the confederate captain Wirtz. Extremely overpopulated, Andersonville held 32,000 Union soldiers in a camp built to hold 8,000. The treatment that the men of Andersonville did not even live up to the standards of the articles of war. Though in tough times, the soldiers survived the unsanitary conditions while still showing kindness and sympathy. Though prisoners lost many of their comrades to the raiders and the confederates, it was the living conditions of Andersonville that killed most of the Union prisoners.
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