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Conclusion

The question I will have hopefully answered by the end of this reseacrh is, was Salisbury as atrocious and evil as Andersonville or was it other factors that played into why the death rate and deteriorating living conditions increased drastically in just a few short months near the end of the war? Through my reading and analysis of scholarly articles, journals, and histories I feel that the Union prisoners are making a pretty good case to make Salisbury another detriment to the already tainted morality of the Confederate prison system during the Civil War. The Confederates also make a good case that they were doing everything in their power to keep these countless deaths from happening. The division is still clear about the Civil War. There are those that claim Confederate nationalism and claim the Confederacy was right in breaking away from the Union because they felt their sovereignty had been violated and there are those that claim the Confederacy was completely wrong in their actions and should have been punished as traitors. This division is evident in this one small city in North Carolina where Unionists claim that the prison and everything that happened there all occurred because the Confederates were malicious and evil and there are the Confederate nationalists who celebrate those same soldiers and call them honorable and brave. Through this research I hope to have made decisions for people easier on who was right and who was wrong, or if the decision is still up in the air.

 

1. Weeks, Dick. "Prisons and Prisoners." Accessed April 13, 2012. http://www.civilwarhome.com/prisonsandprisoners.htm.

2. Brown, Louis. The Salisbury Prison: A Case Study of Confederate Military Prisons 1861-1865. Wilmington,NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1992.

3 Brown, Louis. The Salisbury Prison: A Case Study of Confederate Military Prisons 1861-1865. Wilmington,NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1992.

4. Miller, Steven. Freedmen & Southern Society Project, "Freedmen & Southern Society Project." Last modified March 13, 2012. Accessed April 13, 2012. 

5 Brown, Louis. The Salisbury Prison: A Case Study of Confederate Military Prisons 1861-1865. Wilmington,NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1992.(34)

6. Ibid (73)

7. Gee, Mike. "GEEnealogy." Last modified October 6, 2002.Accessed April 11, 2012.http: Brown, Louis. The Salisbury Prison: A

8. Brown, Louis. The Salisbury Prison: A Case Study of Confederate Military Prisons 1861-1865. Wilmington,NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1992.(184)

9. Ibid, pp. 29

10. Ibid, pp. 138

11. Willard Glazier, Capture, The Prison Pen, and The Escape, (Hartford, CT: H.E. Goodwin, 1869), chap. 19.

12 Ibid, chap, 19

13. Brown, pp.121

14. Ibid, 137-138