A survivor of the Andersonville Prison during the American Civil War
displays his emaciated state after being freed. A prisoner of the camp
described the view upon entering: "As we entered the place, a spectacle
met our eyes that almost froze our blood with horror, and made our
hearts fail within us. Before us were forms that had once been active
and erect; stalwart men, now nothing but mere walking skeletons,
covered with filth and vermin." Nearly thirteen thousand of the
forty-five thousand prisoners died there. Hostilities of the war
officially ended on April 9, 1865.
Photo: Unknown; restoration: Jujutacular
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