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English: This map illustrates the layout of Andersonville Prison, as Sneden refers to the Confederate prison camp, and the surrounding area where Confederate guard troops of the 1st Florida Battery were stationed including the headquarters of Captain Henry Wirz, roads in and out, topographical features such as swampland, a graveyard presumed to ...
Andersonville (1955) is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Andersonville prison. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956. The Andersonville Trial (1970), a PBS television adaptation of a 1959 Broadway play .
Wirz was born Hartmann Heinrich Wirz on November 25, 1823, in Zürich, Switzerland, to Johann Caspar Wirz, a master tailor and member of Zürich's city council, [3] and Sophie Barbara Philipp. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Wirz received elementary and secondary education, and he aspired to become a physician but his family did not possess funds to pay for ...
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 ...
Andersonville: Andersonville National Historic Site: Monument to Henry Wirz, Commander of the Confederate prison, Camp Sumter, at Andersonville, "where approximately thirteen thousand Union troops...died of disease, starvation, and exposure." [36] Erected by UDC in 1909. [37] Athens: Athens Confederate Monument (1872) [38] Atlanta
Even after moving to Tipton, Indiana around 1870, The Noblesville Ledger described how Jennings was still "well known in the Deming neighborhood [and] among the Civil War veterans of Hamilton County." [90] [91] [92] On May 9, 1863, a dozen or so Master Masons gathered in a store in Deming to apply for a charter from the Grand Lodge of Indiana. [93]
The Horrors of Andersonville Rebel Prison: Trial of Henry Wirz, the Andersonville Jailer; Jefferson Davis' Defense of Andersonville Prison Fully Refuted. Bancroft Co. Goodrich, Thomas (2005). The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-11132-6. Jameson, W. C. (2013).
Andersonville, Georgia, site of an American Civil War prisoner of war camp Andersonville Prison, Confederate prisoner of war camp in Georgia holding Union soldiers; Andersonville, Chicago, a neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois Andersonville Commercial Historic District, an historic district in Chicago; Andersonville, Iowa; Andersonville, Indiana