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The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Andersonville Prison (also known as Camp Sumter), a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final fourteen months of the American Civil War.
The Andersonville Raiders were a prison gang of Union POWs incarcerated at the Confederate Andersonville Prison during the American Civil War.Led by their chieftains – Charles Curtis, John Sarsfield, Patrick Delaney, Teri Sullivan (aka "WR Rickson", according to other sources), William Collins, and Alvin T. Munn – these soldiers terrorized their fellow POWs, stealing their possessions and ...
About 56,000 soldiers died in prisons during the war, accounting for almost 10% of all Civil War fatalities. [11] During a period of 14 months in Camp Sumter , located near Andersonville, Georgia , 13,000 (28%) of the 45,000 Union soldiers confined there died. [ 12 ]
During the Civil War, the Confederate army established Camp Sumter at Andersonville to house incoming Union prisoners of war. The overcrowded Andersonville Prison was notorious for its bad conditions, and nearly 13,000 prisoners died there. [5] After the war, Henry Wirz was convicted for war crimes related to the command
The Rev. P. E. Bole received the same visitor and later sent a letter to Jefferson Davis, who included it as well as Wirz's reply to Schade in his book, Andersonville and Other War-Prisons (1890). [31] Andersonville quartermaster Richard B. Winder, who was in the prison at the time, also confirmed this episode. [4]
Dorence Atwater (February 3, 1845 – November 26, 1910) was a Union Army soldier and later a businessman and diplomat who served as the United States Consul to Tahiti.. In July 1863, during the American Civil War, Atwater was captured by the Confederate Army and found himself among the first batch of prisoners at the notorious Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp.
Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville prison during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. Kantor's novel was not the basis for a 1996 John Frankenheimer film Andersonville ...
Andersonville, Pulitzer Prize–winning 1956 novel by MacKinlay Kantor; Andersonville, 1996 film based on a prisoner of war camp prisoner's diary; Andersonville Theological Seminary, Camilla, Georgia, U.S. "Andersonville", a song by Dave Alvin from his 1991 album Blue Blvd