Andersonville Americas Auchewitz
... Justified because they believe northern prisons to be just as deplorable, mirror images of the hell on earth that is Andersonville Prison. ... In an area built to encage 10,000 people at most, Andersonville held more than 32000 in August of 1864. ... He and Clara Barton, a nurse of the Civil War who later went on to found the American Red Cross, took the task of assigning names to the graves of the thousands of deceased heros that had perished at Andersonville. ... Thanks to Atwater and whatever records that the Confederates did keep, less than 500 Union solders were interred as “Unknown US Soldier” New prisoners were welcomed to Andersonville with odor that made them vomit upon arrival, sight of fellow dying man, rats, insects, human waste, bodies, and also thieving hoodlum Union Soldiers called the “Raiders”. The “Raiders” were another issue at Andersonville.