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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 ...
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 ...
HENRY WIRTZ, late keeper of the Andersonville prison, whose trial at Washington ... the bare thought of which thrills the soul with horror. Ten, twenty, thirty, sometimes forty emaciated corpses ...
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 ...
Here's what to know. What happened at Andersonville in the Civil War? Andersonville was the site of the largest prison in the Civil War, Camp Sumter. "The prison itself was not fully prepared to ...
He survived the harrowing conditions of the Confederate prison Andersonville before coming to Cohoes and sketching a famous drawing of the misery he endured there. O'Dea was a 19th-century ...
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 ...
Gray’s episode will focus on Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prison camp in Georgia. Infamous for its brutal conditions, lack of food and overcrowding, approximately 13,000 of the roughly ...