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Confederate Prison Camp Shown Under New Light Infrared

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Daniel C. McCarthy, Senior Editor/Special Projects

After the American Civil War, the Confederate prison camp in Salisbury, N.C., carried the reputation as being one of the South's harshest installations. A monument on the site records that 11,700 Union prisoners are buried in mass graves there. For decades, historians have attributed the high number of deaths to malnutrition and to the lack of adequate clothing or shelter. But infrared imaging is revealing the prison's history and structure under a different light. For instance, written descriptions of the 12-acre site's layout conflict with a hand-drawn sketch made by a Confederate...Read full article

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