After surviving the Confederates’ notorious Andersonville Prison, Thomas O’Dea spent ... s overcrowding and deprivation during the Civil War. Almost 13,000 of its prisoners died from ...

The gallows creaked as Captain Henry Wirz became a rare figure in American history - executed for his role in wartime ...

Camp Sumter, also known as Andersonville prison, housed 45,000 captured Union soldiers during the Civil ... After the conflict, the Andersonville commander was put on trial for war crimes.

Among the prominent Civil War veterans ... accounts from Andersonville inadequately captured its history. O'Dea started drawing in 1879 after seeing a report that portrayed the prison as orderly.

It’s a horrific story about a sad chapter in the nation’s history: the Civil ... prison officials. Henry Wirz, the truly evil commander of Andersonville, was tried and hanged after the war ...

The “Sale Creek Sixty-Five” was a group of 65 Union sympathizers in the Civil ... at Andersonville, most of them between April 1864 and February 1865. After the war the leader of the prison ...

The Rock Island Civil War Prison: Andersonville of the North? This documentary tells the story of the Rock Island Civil War Prison and how it acquired the undeserved reputation as the ...

The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 ... Relic collecting after battles was a widespread ...

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 ...

Gray, Ph.D., who is an expert on Civil War-era prisons ... Gray’s episode will focus on Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prison camp in Georgia. Infamous for its brutal conditions, lack ...