In 1864, 33,000 Yankee prisoners of war suffer the horrors of imprisonment at the Confederate prison of Andersonville
Looking for an answer, Ovid Futch cut through charges and counter-charges that have made the camp a subject of bitter controversy.
Join author and historian Stacy W. Reaves as she recounts the horrendous conditions of the prison and the tremendous efforts to memorialize the men within.
This is a documentary work offering a first-person account of a Union soldier's daily adversity while a prisoner of war from 20 September 1863 to 4 June 1865.
Clete Wilson led the way as if anxious to confront Marcel . “ You know anything about Bill's whereabouts ... “ Marcel Lafarge , sir . ... Wilson here says you took a beating at the table last night , we're talking to all the players .
The original of Anderson's letter is preserved in the manuscript proceedings of the Henry Wirz tribunal , Box 1269 ... B. Driskill and T. Driskill , both of Company G , 3rd Georgia Reserves , served on detached duty under Captain Wirz ...
Foran hour, thatwas doubtlessaneternityto therascal undergoingbranding, Captain Jack continued his alternate pickings and drenchings. Atthe end of that time the traitor's face was disfigured with a hideous mark that he would bear to his ...
Describes the large Confederate prisoner of war camp in Georgia, known as Camp Sumter or Andersonville, and the harsh conditions that killed many prisoners there during the Civil War.
The diary of John Ransom chronicles life as a prisoner-of-war in the infamous Andersonville prison
The Southern Side; Or, Andersonville Prison
In this book the reader sees the Civil War through the eyes of four Union soldiers who, although they were all from south central Pennsylvania, experienced the war in radically different ways.