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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 .
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The 16.5-acre prison was built in February 1864 and then enlarged to 26.5 acres in June 1864 shortly before Smith arrived. By the time Smith arrived, in August 1864, Andersonville held 33,000 prisoners, the most it held at one time during the course of its existence. [4]
Among them was a veteran held at a Confederate prison known as Andersonville. Several were wounded in combat and others fought in critical battles including Gettysburg, Stones River and the ...
Stephen French, Esq. (23 May 1844 – 1929) was an American educator, [1] lawyer [1] and Civil War veteran. [1] [2] He was known for being captured by the Confederate army during the American Civil War, imprisoned at Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp, having escaped captivity for five days in the forests of Georgia, and being re-captured and re-imprisoned at Andersonville.
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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 ...
Open from 1934 to 1963, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was thought to house some of America’s most ruthless criminals. But it was also home to the young families of guards who patrolled the prison.