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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 .
The Business of Captivity in the Chemung Valley: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison (2001) Hesseltine William B., ed. (1972). Civil War Prisons. reprints among other articles: Futch, Ovid (1962). "Prison Life at Andersonville," Civil War History 8#2 pp. 121–135; McLain, Minor H. (1962) "The Military Prison at Fort Warren," Civil War History. 8#2 ...
Andersonville Prison; Antietam National Cemetery; B. Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery; ... Search. Search. Category: American Civil War cemeteries.
Cemeteries throughout the South contain the remains of Iowa soldiers who fell during the war, with the largest concentration at Vicksburg National Cemetery. A number also died in Confederate prison camps, including Andersonville prison. Though the total number of Iowans who served in the military during the Civil War seems small compared to the ...
Wounded in the thigh, Gooding was taken to Andersonville in early March 1864, where he died as a prisoner of war on July 19, 1864. He is buried in grave 3,585 in the Andersonville National Cemetery. Unknown to him at the time of his death, Congress had passed the law in June 1864 granting equal pay to African American 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."
MUNCIE, Ind. — An Anderson resident who fatally shot a Delaware County man was sentenced Friday to 66 years in prison. A Delaware Circuit Court 5 jury on June 27 found Alexander Thomas Eugene ...
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]