A hormone secreted by the pancreas in response to high blood sugar levels that induces hypoglycemia. Insulin regulates the body's use of glucose and the levels of glucose in the blood by acting to open the cells so that they can intake glucose.
Open from 1864 to 1865, Camp Sumter Military Prison located at Andersonville was the deadliest single location for a U.S. soldier during the Civil War. View the brochure. Georgia was home to 16 Confederate prisons during the Civil War, including notorious Camp Sumter in Andersonville. They ranged from well-constructed fortifications, such as county jails, to makeshift installations, such as wooded areas patrolled by armed guards.
White House of the Confederacy Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries The White House of the Confederacy served as the Executive Mansion of the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865, when Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy. The mansion was the official quarters during the Civil War of the only President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis. From this house, Davis fled Richmond on April 3 1865, just before the April 9, 1865 surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Leeâs Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. The house was the birthplace of his daughter Winnie, âDaughter of the Confederacy,â and where his son Joseph died in a fall from a porch. Originally built in 1818 for Dr. John Brockenbrough, the home is one of the finer examples of Federal style homes in the City of Richmond.