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Andersonville prisoners and tents, southwest view showing the dead-line, August 17, 1864. At this stage of the war, Andersonville Prison was frequently under-supplied with food. By 1864, civilians in the Confederacy and soldiers of the Confederate Army were all struggling to obtain sufficient quantities of food. The shortage of fare was ...
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 ...
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.
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] Although he managed to escape once, he was recaptured and returned to Andersonville where he remained a prisoner of war for the next seven months until he was freed by Union forces on March 2, 1865.
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.
Despite their threats he returned unharmed and rejoined the ranks of prisoners. The cheers of the soldiers at this brave deed could have been heard one mile away, but Corbett seemed to think it was not out of the ordinary. It was the bravest deed that I had seen during the war. We arrived at Andersonville prison the next day. [citation needed]
Fifty-six were taken prisoner by the Confederates. Most of them were taken to Mississippi and Alabama and enslaved whereas the white prisoners from the 13th Tennessee Cavalry were sent to Andersonville Prison where a large percentage died. Several of the black prisoners escaped and many of those missing in action eventually returned to their unit.
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