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Camp Sumpter at Andersonville, Georgia was reputed to be the worst Confederate States run prison and Camp Rathbun at Elmira, New York the worst run by The United States. Both had similar overall death rates although Camp Rathbun exceeded Camp Sumpter in some months.

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the famous ciil war prison was the Andersonville Prison

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