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The Italian western comics series “Tex” includes a three-volumes episode set in the imaginary prisoner-of-war camp Anderville during the American civil war, which is based upon Andersonville. [46] The TV movie Andersonville (1996), directed by John Frankenheimer, tells the story of the notorious Confederate prison camp. [47]
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A Union Army soldier barely alive in Georgia on his release in 1865. Both Confederate and Union prisoners of war suffered great hardships during their captivity.. Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers.
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 be connected with the prison, and "Anderson Village."
Andersonville is a 1996 American television film directed by John Frankenheimer about a group of Union soldiers during the American Civil War who are captured by the Confederates and sent to an infamous Confederate prison camp. The film is loosely based on the diary of John Ransom, a Union soldier imprisoned there.
Henry Wirz (born Hartmann Heinrich Wirz; November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was a Swiss-American convicted war criminal who served as a Confederate Army officer during the American Civil War. [1]
American Civil War prison camp survivor, author unknown (restored by Jujutacular) Andersonville Prison , by John L. Ransom (restored by Jujutacular ) John F. Reynolds , by Alfred Rudolph Waud (edited by Jujutacular and Papa Lima Whiskey )
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