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Andersonville Civil War Prison

Title
Andersonville Civil War Prison / Robert Scott Davis.
Author
Davis, Robert Scott, 1954-
Publication
Charleston, SC : History Press, 2010.

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Description
142 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
Andersonville (Camp Sumter) Civil War prison was only in operation for little more than one year, from 1964 into 1865. In just a few of those months, however, it became the largest city in Georgia and the fifth-largest city in the Confederate States of America. During that time, it also became America's deadliest prison. Of the almost forty thousand captured Federal soldiers, sailors and civilians who entered its gates, some thirteen thousand died there. Thousands more died as a result of their time in this stockade of legend in deep southwest Georgia. Here the author tells the story of this infamous Confederate prison.
Series Statement
The History Press Civil War sesquicentennial series
Uniform Title
History Press Civil War sesquicentennial series
Subject
  • Andersonville Prison > History
  • Andersonville Prison > History > Pictorial works
  • Andersonville Prison
  • American Civil War (1861-1865)
  • 1800 - 1899
  • Prisoners of war > Georgia > Andersonville > History > 19th century
  • Prisoners of war > Confederate States of America > History
  • Prisoners of war > United States > History > 19th century
  • HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology
  • Atrocities
  • Prisoners of war
  • Prisons > history
  • Prisoners of War > history
  • Military Personnel
  • American Civil War
  • United States > History > Prisoners and prisons. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States > History > Atrocities. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Georgia > Andersonville
  • United States
  • United States > Confederate States of America
  • Georgia
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Pictorial works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-136) and index.
Contents
Prisons of war -- Camp Sumter becomes Andersonville -- The horror -- Escaping from Andersonville -- The hanging of the raiders -- Twilight at Andersonville -- After the gates closed.
ISBN
  • 9781596297623
  • 159629762X
LCCN
2010040672
OCLC
  • ocn666492919
  • SCSB-9643324
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library