Malnutrition during its one year in operation. Next, derek next field, author of hellmira the unions most infamous pow camp of the civil war talks about the conditions at the prison and some of the officers in charge. His talk was part of a symposium on the war in the east hosted by the emerging civil war blog. ,. He is an associate professor in batavia, new york, hometown of emory upton. He earned fame at the battle of spotsylvania courthouse. Drerk has earned fame for his brandnew book as part of the emergence of war series, called. Ladies and gentlemen please welcome derek max field. Derek maxfield. Thank you very much. I very please to be here and talk about my latest project. Hellmira and prisoner over cams in general have been quite a surprise to me. , although we understand, that this is a small number of casualties, consider the total number of casualties during the civil war, or 750,000 now we believe, you know when you consider that we couldve done better. Both north and sout