Southern+Treatment

=Southern Prisoners Treatment= ==In the prisons of the South, disease spreads quickly, including smallpox, scurvy, dropsy, and diarrhea. By April 25, 718 prisoners had died. This happened at the dreaded Andersonville prison camp in Georgia. An estimate of 56,000 men died in civil war prison camps due to disease, terrible conditions, and very poor sanatation. Some camps claimed more than 20% of lives. Prisoner's diets included pickled beef, salt pork, corn meal, rice, and bean soup. There was generally little soap and poor sanatation.==