A confederate prison near Andersonville, Georgia, around 45,000 Union soldiers were kept there during the Civil War. The conditions here, as well as in other Prisoner of War camps were horrendous. 12,913 soldiers died there from starvation, malnutrition and other communicable diseases. Soldiers described entering the camp and seeing "walking skeletons of former men" and seeing excrement all over the ground. Many incoming prisoners saw Andersonville to be a "living hell."