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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 ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Huntington County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
On February 22, 1864, after a prison escape, prisoners were shipped to a new camp in Georgia. Sneden was placed in the notorious Andersonville Prison, [3] but continued making clandestine drawings. [4] Altogether, he sketched scenes of prison life in Savannah and Millen, Georgia, and in Florence and Charleston, South Carolina. [5]
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
By 1864, he had moved to Washington, D.C., to work at the War Department under Secretary Edwin M. Stanton. [1] Chipman successfully prosecuted Captain Henry Wirz, the commander of the Confederacy's infamous Andersonville prison camp, where almost 13,000 Union soldiers lost their lives. [4]