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Prison Injustice

Published on Nov 27, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

PRISON INJUSTICE

STORIES OF SOUTHERN PREJUDICE

George W. Fitch
12th US Colored Infantry

"I was captured on the 20th of December fourteen miles in a southeasterly direction." "They brought me and the two others into the forest. The lead man turned his horse horizontal and drew his gun. He fired upon me, then the other two."

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Henry Wirz
Southern Commander of
Camp Sumter

Henry Wirz was the southern officer in charge of the prison in Andersonville. He was the only post-civil war officer charged with war crimes.

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The Libby Prison Surgeons

Photo by Allen Gathman

In Libby Prison in Richmond, several surgeons cowrote an article on the condition and mistreatment of the union prisoners they worked on.