The squalid conditions in the camp came to define the very horror of wartime captivity ... His first challenge was to locate the prison. When Gue asked about “Andersonville,” southerners ...

Union soldiers in the tens of thousands were imprisoned at the Andersonville camp in Georgia. Nearly a third of them died there, victims of exposure to heat and cold, polluted water, starvation ...

His name was Henry Wirz — and the horrors he presided over at Andersonville Prison shocked the world. As 13,000 Union soldiers died under his command, justice came calling. This is the chilling ...

With this you will receive an official statement of the deaths among the Union prisoners at Andersonville ... The untold horrors of that prison will never be unveiled. As you know, a parole ...

The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down ...

Andersonville was probably the worst place on earth, a horror show from beginning to end. | From Our Past page Alpheus Pike of Bloomington spent more than three months at this Confederate prison ...

For more than 140 years, the name of Andersonville, the infamous prisoner-of-war camp in western Georgia, has evoked all the horror of the Civil War. The postwar trial of the prison’s ...

Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter, was a Georgia prison used for impounding Union ... a spectacle met our eyes that almost froze our blood with horror, and made our hearts fail within ...

Known to history as Andersonville Prison, after the nearby village, Camp Sumter was a place of horror and despair. More than 300 Connecticut soldiers perished there, and today lay buried in the ...

For more than 140 years, the name of Andersonville, the infamous prisoner-of-war camp in western Georgia, has evoked all the horror of the Civil War. The postwar trial of the prison’s ...