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Harrowing account of Belle Isle and Libby prison camps
A Sanitary Commission inquiry details slow starvation, freezing, and systematic neglect of U S prisoners on Belle Isle and Libby Prison. Witnesses describe tents, uncured hunger, filth, disease, and indifference, contrasting with Rebel soldier treatment and noting hospitals and rail transport abuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanitary Commission
Valentine Mott
Edward Delafield
Gouverneur M. Wilkins
Ellerslie Wallace
J. I. C. Hare
T. Waldron
Richmond
Committee of
Mott
Judge Hare
Delafield
Libby
Belle Isle
James River
Tredgar Iron-works
Sibley
Teast
South
Memphis
Southern
Confederacy
Congress
Bndco
Ely
Connecticut
George Ward
Norwich
Col. Farnsworth
Pierce
Turner
Ferguson
Ays
Union
Corder
Danville
Andersonville
United States
Annapolis
Washington
Lincoln Hospital
the Wilderness
Spottsylvania
Virginia
South Carolina
Georgia
Mississippi
North Carolina
Alabama
Fort Delaware
David’s Island
New York
United States Army
Tem
Linos
North