Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses The principal place of confinement for Union soldiers \vus at Anderson vi lie, (la. Out of 45,013 prisoners confined there, 12,'J12 died — or, 28 per cent. The greatest mnnl>er present at any time was 33,114 --on August 8, 1804. The greatest mnnl>er of deaths in any one day was 127—on August 23, 1804. The daily average of deaths was 'Jl'jf. The largest military prison in the North was located at Klmira, N. Y. As at Andcrson-ville, it consisted of an open stockade or prison pen. In it were conlined 11,010 prisoners, of whom 2,004 died, or 25 percent. The greatest mortality occurred in March, lsor», in which month 405 died at Ehnira. Of the total numlx»r that died, 2,OS8 were hnried in a field which has since heen ploughed over and planted with wheat ; and now the grain of summer and the snow of winter show no sign of the hapless Confederates who are laid at rest beneath its surface. _02678
