Prison and concentration camps

[subdjoe]

This is an interesting read.  Institute for Historical Review
The Civil War Concentration Camps
by Mark Weber

And I had forgotten about this:

In addition to camps for captured soldiers, the North also established concentration camps for civilian populations considered hostile to the Federal government. Union General Thomas Ewing issued his infamous Order Number 11 in August 1863, whereby large numbers of civilians in Missouri were relocated into what were called "posts."

In Plain Speaking, "an Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman," the former President tells what happened:

    Everybody, almost the entire population of Jackson County and Vernon and Cass and Bates counties, all of them were depopulated, and the people had to stay in posts.

    They called them posts, but what they were, they were concentration camps. And most of the people were moved in such a hurry that they had to leave all their goods and their chattels in their houses. Then the Federal soldiers came in and took everything that was left and set fire to the houses.

    That didn't go down very well with the people in these parts; putting people in concentration camps in particular didn't. (pp 78-79)

President Truman's grandmother loaded what belongings she could into an oxcart and, with six of her children, among them the President's mother, made the journey to a "post" in Kansas City. Martha Ellen Truman vividly remembered that trek until she died at the age of 94.

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SBG had something about this very subject some time back and the results of those Northern "Post" were also a killing field to some 30,000 Southern women and children who never saw their land or loved ones again after being sent there.

[RB1235]

Good info there subdjoe. A long time ago I read a book on the prisoner camps, but didn't know they did that to civilians as well. From what I read the Yankee prisoners received fair quarter in the South. But the Rebs suffered atrocities at the hands of their Northern counterparts.