What term for the final date or time when a task must be completed originated at a Confederate prisoner of war camp in the 1860's?
Columbia, South Carolina in the American Civil War the short-lived Republic of South Carolina. Columbia's location made it an ideal spot for other conventions and meetings within the Confederacy. During the ensuing Civil War, bankers, railroad executives, teachers, and theologians from several states met in the city from time to time to discuss certain matters. Castle Sorghum was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp established in 1862 in Columbia. It consisted of a tract of open field, without walls, fences, buildings or any other facilities. A "deadline" was established by laying wood planks inside the camp's boundaries. The rations consisted of cornmeal and sorghum molasses as the main staple in
Prisoner-of-war camp left. The earliest known purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp was established by the Kingdom of Great Britain at Norman Cross, in 1797 to house the increasing number of prisoners from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Lacking a means for dealing with large numbers of captured troops early in the American Civil War, the Union and Confederate governments relied on the traditional European system of parole and exchange of prisoners. While awaiting exchange, prisoners were confined to permanent camps. Neither Union or Confederate prison camps were always well run, and it was common for prisoners to die of starvation or