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1. Why were new guards brought in, were they qualified?

2. How did the reorganization perpetuate prisoners escaping or trying to escape?

3. Why was so little food give to the prisoners?

4. What would be worse a tunnel cave in and being buried alive or suffering in the prison?

5. In any prison there would be a sense of loneliness would that be possible in Andersonville?

6. “Selfishness and self-preservation vanquished morality and produced thievery and a general atmosphere of violence.” What is this passage referring to?

7. Andersonville is eluded to as being a “whirlpool of death” why?

8. The Prison is basically open to the conditions, but it is also stagnate why?

9. Who are the raiders why are the such a bane to the prisoners?

10. Who were the Plymouth Bretheren? What mistake did they make when they first came to Andersonville?

11. What does the Confederate army’s attempt to recruit half starved and downtrodden prisoners say about their outlook for the war?

12. “We are all fiends by nature” explain this passage how does it relate to the story?

13. Why was there such a rush to the new land added onto the prison?

14. Why was the North not interested in prisoner exchange?

15. What was Dr. Chandler’s view of Andersonville? Why was this odd?