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We also have to remember that in a pre-antibiotic world, prisoners who were wounded stood a very poor chance of surviving imprisonment, given the deplorable sanitary conditions of the camps.
Of course, things were improved over the conditions of camps in the Civil War, where disease claimed more soldiers than bullets did.
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