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Division of states during the civil war: blue = Union, including those admitted during the war; light blue = border, some of which had both Unionist & Confederate governments; red = Confederate; white areas were not states before or during…

Historic Marker at the U.S. Civil War Recruiting Station, Wasioja, Minnesota, USA. Operated by the Dodge County Historical Society.

Fort Wood, Bedlow Island in New Your Harbor around the time of the birth of Henry Balding Lewis

John H. Winder as a Colonel of the Confederate States Army

No. 8220.
- Title from item.
- Hand written on verso: "[Miller] Vol. VII, p. 131".
- Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Photograph of drawing by James E. Taylor shows Union prisoners going through door in stockade wall as one prisoner collects a cake of bread.

Title: A new batch at Andersonville Abstract/medium: 1 drawing on orange paper : pencil ; 23.6 x 31.8 cm. (sheet).
Signed lower right: W.W.
Title inscribed below image.
On verso study for DRWG/US - Waud (W.), no 14 (A size)
Gift, J.P. Morgan,…

Nazareth Allen, of Bibb County, Georgia, was one of the several Andersonville guards who spoke during the trial of Henry Wirz in fall 1865. Allen testified, "I was on duty at the stockade as a sentry. I had the means of observing the condition of…

The Confederate Civil War prisoner camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was an utter nightmare for the many soldiers held within. It was dangerously overcrowded, rife with disease, and food and medical supplies were always in short supply.

War uniform image of Civil War, Confederate Captain Henry Wirz.