he is lucky to have survived point Lookout, too
None of those POW camps were meant to keep people alive
my cousin died in one in NC after being wounded
panorama pics of Gettysburgh:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10201198369391754.1073741841.1546263781&type=3&uploaded=31
My ancestor who died in the camp, Private Brennan Treadwell, died during a diphtheria outbreak in August 1864, which claimed the lives of over a thousand men in less than two weeks time.