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Eric Leonard talked about the prison, officially named Camp Sumter, in Andersonville, Georgia, where over 12,900 Union prisoners died during the Civil War. He spoke by video from the Anderso…

Eric Leonard talked about the rise of prison camps during the Civil War and the harsh life soldiers endured as prisoners of war. Mr. Leonard described how the prison camps were created and m…

Civil War scholars gave a historical perspective on the physical and mental trauma suffered by soldiers fighting the bloodiest war in American history.*More than 625,000 Americans died in th…