andersonville

Tells the story of Andersonville, a Civil War prison camp in Georgia where thousands of Union prisoners died in the last fourteen months of the war, drawing from a variety of documents to consider whether the prison's commandant, Captain Henry Wirz, was justifiably convicted and hanged.

Presents the 1861-65 diaries, personal sketches, and maps of Private Robert Knox Sneden, a Union soldier whose appointment as a mapmaker led him to witness some of the Civil War's most important campaigns, and who spent a year imprisoned in Georgia's Andersonville prison camp.

Presents a first-hand account of life in the Confederate prison camp Andersonville through the diary entries of John Ransom, a Union soldier captured in Richmond, Virginia in November 1863 and held until his successful escape over a year later.

Tells the story of Andersonville, a Civil War prison camp in Georgia where thousands of Union prisoners died in the last fourteen months of the war, drawing from a variety of documents to consider whether the prison's commandant, Captain Henry Wirz, was justifiably convicted and hanged.

Examines the war crimes trial, in which Henry Wirz, the Confederate officer in charge of Andersonville Prison camp was accused of allowing the prisoners to be deliberately abused and neglected.