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Andersonville Historic Site and National Cemetery, and the National Prisoner of War Museum.
The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Camp Sumter (also known as Andersonville Prison), a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final twelve months of the American Civil War. As well as the former prison, the site contains the Andersonville National Cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum.
The site is an iconic reminder of the horrors of Civil War prisons. It was commanded by Captain Henry Wirz, who was tried and executed after the war for war crimes. It was overcrowded to four times its capacity, with an inadequate water supply, inadequate food rations, and unsanitary conditions. Of the approximately 45,000 Union prisoners held at Camp Sumter during the war, nearly 13,000 died. The chief causes of death were scurvy, diarrhea, and dysentery.
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Andersonville Civil War Prison & POW Museum Andersonville, GA
These are pictures I took of Andersonville Prison and POW Museum during our homeschool field trip in 2009.. Union soldiers were held under inhuman conditions. One out of three died there.
Andersonville National Cemetery & National Prisoner of War Museum
The Andersonville National Historic Site is located in Andersonville, Georgia. Formerly known as Camp Sumter & Andersonville Prison. It served as a prisoner-of-war camp during the last year of the American Civil War.
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'The Sentinels of Andersonville' by Tracy Groot
The conditions at Andersonville Prison are deteriorating, but sentry Dance knows that mercy is viewed as treason. Meanwhile, Violet's attempts to help the prisoners only stir up trouble. And corporal Emery's camaraderie with a Union P.O.W. may cost him dearly. When the three meet, can they muster the courage to take a stand for their fellow man?
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TRUE History of, The Confederate Andersonville Camp, Doctor Albert Winkler
TRUE History of, The Confederate Andersonville Camp, Doctor Albert Winkler.
Captain Henry Wirz, under the immediate command of Brigadier-General John H. Winder C.S.A., absent on sick leave, August 1864, commanded the inner prison at Camp Sumter, April 12, 1864 to May 7, 1865.
To the best of his ability he tried to obtain food and medicine for Federal prisoners and permitted some to go to Washington in a futile attempt to get prisoners exchanged. He was tried for failure to provide food and medicines for Federals imprisoned here, though the guards ate the same food and mortality was as high among Confederate guards as among prisoners. Of him, Eliza Frances Andrews, Georgia writer, said, “Had he been an angel from heaven, he could not have changed the pitiful fate of privation and hunger unless he had possessed the power to repeat the miracle of loaves and fishes”. Refusing to implicate others he gave his life for the South, November 10th, 1865.
When the War Between the States (Civil War) ended in
1865, Capt. Wirz was paroled. However, shortly thereafter,
he was arrested and carried to Washington, D.C. where he
was placed in the Old Capitol Prison. His trial before a
military tribunal lasted several months, and included the
perjured testimony of a Yankee soldier, Felix Oeser, who
was a deserter from the 7th NY Regiment, who falsely
claimed to be Felix de la Baume, a great nephew of Marquis
Lafayette of American Revolutionary war fame. For his
false testimony against Capt. Wirz, he was given a position
with the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. It was later learned that
this key witness whose perjured testimony contributed
considerably to the conviction had never been at
Andersonville. The vast Majority of defense witnesses for
Capt. Wirz were not permitted to testify. Many historians
call his trial a farce and travesty of justice. After the war in
1908, James Madison Page, a Michigan cavalryman, who had
been a POW at Andersonville, wrote a book completely
exonerating Wirz.
Capt. Wirz was falsely convicted of murdering 13 Union
prisoners at Andersonville, although neither a single body,
nor even the name of any of the 13 was ever produced. He
was also falsely convicted on a second charge of conspiracy
with high ranking members of the Confederate government
to create the conditions that caused the high death rate. Wirz
was made a scapegoat for the South. On Nov. 10, 1865, Capt.
Wirz was hanged in the yard of the Old Capitol Prison. He
declared his innocence to the end. The night before the
hanging he was offered a commuted sentence if he would
implicate Confederate President Jefferson Davis as a
conspirator for Andersonville deaths. Wirz was an honorable
man and would not lie to save his life.
After the hanging, the barbaric Yankees cut off his head
and arms and other body parts, and exhibited them about
the country. It took Capt. Wirz's attorney, Louis Schade, four
years to collect enough body parts to have a Christian burial
in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington.
The highly biased Northern version of Andersonville
Civil War Prison (POW) Camp is well known however the
true facts concerning Andersonville are not well known. The
true facts concerning Andersonville are not well known. The
government of The Confederate States of America issued an
order that a large POW prison should be constructed in early
1864 to alleviate crowding in existing camps in the South.
The requirements were that it be constructed at a location
further South away from the battle front and should be a
healthy location with plenty of pure water, a running stream,
close to grist and saw mills and if possible have shade trees.
The location selected was in South Georgia in Sumter County
and was officially named Camp Sumter although it became
known as Andersonville. It was constructed to house 10,000
Union POW's however numbers increased to as high as
45,000 due to a policy by the Lincoln administration to
discontinue exchanges.
The average death rate at other POW camps in the
South was about 9% as compared to 12% for POW camps in
the North where Confederate POW's were incarcerated. In
contrast the death rate at Andersonville was approximately
29% due to causes beyond the control of Confederate
authorities and was unintentional. Also in contrast were the
similar death rates at several Northern POW camps notably
Elmira New York and Camp Douglas Chicago where the high
death rates have been proven to be intentional. The U.S.
Senate and House passed a joint resolution, SR97, stating the
intent to kill Confederate POW’s by starvation, disease, and
exposure to inclement weather.
It is a well-known fact that the victor of a war writes the
history from a biased perspective.
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Andersonville National Historic Site; Trip 2018
2018 Trip visit to Andersonville National Historic Site. Georgia
Andersonville was the worst POW camp of the Civil war...This part is the museum which is a all POWs not just Civil War.
A Look Inside Andersonville's Prison Cemetery
During the 14 months Andersonville Prison existed, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined here. Of these, almost 13,000 died from disease, poor sanitation, malnutrition, overcrowding, or exposure to the elements.
This video comes from GPB Education's virtual field trip to Andersonville Prison:
HAUNTED ANDERSONVILLE PRISON AND CEMETERY SLIDESHOW
Civil War POW camp in Andersonville, Georgia.
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Peter Wood Speaks About Winslow Homer's Near Andersonville
This Inside the Vaults video short follows the history of Winslow Homer's Civil War-era painting Near Andersonville. Archivist of the United States David Ferriero speaks with Peter Wood, emeritus professor of history at Duke University, about Wood's new book, named after the painting.
Inside the Vaults includes highlights from the National Archives in the Washington, DC, area and from the Presidential libraries and regional archives nationwide. These shorts present behind-the-scenes exclusives and offer surprising stories about the National Archives treasures. See more from Inside the Vaults at
Civil War Artifacts
As America commemorates the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, we look at the Delaware Historical Society's collection of wartime envelopes and stationery. Long before soldiers could text and phone their families back home, boys in blue and gray put their thoughts and feelings into letters, some decorated with elaborate and, at times, politically incendiary artwork and cartoons. The now-valuable collection of some 250 artifacts provides a unique perspective on the war and on political communication then and now.
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When Georgia Howled: Sherman on the March
FOR 37 WEEKS IN 1864, GENERAL WILLIAM T. SHERMAN MADE GEORGIA HIS BATTLEGROUND. Georgia Public Broadcasting and the Atlanta History Center have partnered to produce the gripping new documentary “When Georgia Howled: Sherman on the March,” premiering Thursday, September 10 at 8 p.m. on GPB Television. The program is the companion documentary to their Emmy-winning collaboration 37 Weeks: Sherman on the March,” a series of 90-second segments that premiered in April 2014 and commemorated the 150th anniversary of Sherman’s 1864 march into Georgia. IT WAS 37 WEEKS THAT WOULD DETERMINE THE FATE OF A NATION.
Cold Harbor Flag
Steven Beaudin describing the battle of Cold Harbor and the men of the 8th New York Heavy Artillery going into battle with their flag with a museum goer. This is the private collection of Bob Matis, on display Sept. 17 through October 29 2011, at the Plantation Historical Museum, 511 N. Fig Tree Lane.
The exhibit included Union and Confederate uniforms, muskets, paintings, paperwork from the era, folk art, cannons, and most impressively, a framed American flag from the Battle at Cold Harbor in 1864, belonging to the 8th New York Heavy Artillery.
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Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States. It began as a British colony in 1733, the last and southernmost of the original Thirteen Colonies to be established. Named after King George II of Great Britain, the Province of Georgia covered the area from South Carolina down to Spanish Florida and New France along Louisiana (New France), also bordering to the west towards the Mississippi River. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788. In 1802–1804, western Georgia was split to the Mississippi Territory, which later split to form Alabama with part of former West Florida in 1819. Georgia declared its secession from the Union on January 19, 1861, and was one of the original seven Confederate states. It was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15, 1870. Georgia is the 24th largest and the 8th most populous of the 50 United States. From 2007 to 2008, 14 of Georgia's counties ranked among the nation's 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas. Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South. Atlanta, the state's capital and most populous city, has been named a global city.
Georgia is bordered to the north by Tennessee and North Carolina, to the northeast by South Carolina, to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by Florida, and to the west by Alabama. The state's northernmost part is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains system. The Piedmont extends through the central part of the state from the foothills of the Blue Ridge to the Fall Line, where the rivers cascade down in elevation to the coastal plain of the state's southern part. Georgia's highest point is Brasstown Bald at 4,784 feet (1,458 m) above sea level; the lowest is the Atlantic Ocean. Of the states entirely east of the Mississippi River, Georgia is the largest in land area.
Suspense: Crime Without Passion / The Plan / Leading Citizen of Pratt County
A crime of passion, or crime passionnel, in popular usage, refers to a violent crime, especially murder, in which the perpetrator commits the act against someone because of sudden strong impulse such as sudden rage or heartbreak rather than as a premeditated crime. The act, as is suggested by the name (crime passionnel - from French language) is often associated with the history of France. However, such crimes have existed and continue to exist in most cultures.
A crime of passion refers to a criminal act in which the perpetrator commits a crime, especially murder or assault, against someone because of sudden strong impulse such as sudden rage or heartbreak rather than as a premeditated crime. A typical crime of passion might involve an aggressive pub-goer who assaults another guest following an argument or a husband who discovers his wife has made him a cuckold and proceeds to brutally batter or even kill his wife and the man with whom she was involved.
In the United States civil courts, a crime of passion is referred to as temporary insanity. This defense was first used by U.S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.
In some countries, notably France, crime passionnel (or crime of passion) was a valid defense during murder cases; during the 19th century, some cases could be a custodial sentence for two years for the murderer, while the spouse was dead; this ended in France as the Napoleonic code was updated in the 1970s so that a specific father's authority upon his whole family was over.