What does it take to be labeled a war criminal? For Henry Wirz, commanding one of the worst POW camps in history was enough.

The remains of more than two dozen Civil War veterans were discovered after ... Among them was one who had been held at ...

$10.00. ISBN:. Many are they myths of the Civil War, and one of the most enduring is that the Union prisoner-of-war camp at Rock Island, Illinois, was “as bad as” or even “worse than” the Confederate ...

Andersonville Prison was the most notorious POW camp holding Union Army soldiers. The prison’s population peaked at 32,899 inmates and had an overall mortality rate of 40 percent. Researchers created ...

The Confederate Civil War prisoner camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was an utter nightmare for the many soldiers held within. It was dangerously overcrowded, rife with disease, and food and medical ...

As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than 18 ... They endured the horrors of Andersonville, a Confederate prison in which thousands of Union men died of starvation and disease.

CHICAGO (CBS) — Two men were found with gunshot wounds in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood on Tuesday night. Just after 9 p.m., Chicago police found a 26-year-old man with gunshot wounds in ...