Andersonville was a Southern prison for captured Union troops. They Union troops were treated horribly. At Andersonville the soldiers lacked life's basic necessities. The majority of the soldiers didn't have shelters. This resulted in the creation of "shebangs". A "shebang" is a shed that the soldiers built for shelters. Everything in the prison was divided into rations. Not everybody in the prison got what they needed. In the prison, 35,000 people were confined there. By summer, half of the population was dead. The soldiers were given rations cooked one day and raw the other. The soldiers hustled and smuggled required items around the prison. Many of the soldiers had to cook their rations. They were also forced to work. This prison was in fact, in-humane. After the war, the founder of prison was charged for his crimes and executed by hanging.