A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War Sedimentology & Stratigraphy Since it first appeared in

Since it first appeared in 1971

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where they're met with societal uproar and scrutiny

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A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War Sedimentology & Stratigraphy Since it first appeared inIt is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well known than the war's death toll are the roughly 400,000 Union and Confederate troops who were captured and imprisoned. Many POWs died from starvation, dysentery, and exposure, and at the worst of the prison pens, more than 30,000 soldiers were caged in the equivalent of ten city blocks. Against the backdrop of a brutal internecine conflict, the Civil War's prison