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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…

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,…

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

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…

Map of Andersonville prison for Confederate prisoners of war. Map details significant sites on the prison grounds.

For voice and piano. ; Caption title. ; Black and white lithograph depicting nine non-descript scenes surrounding a series of bayonets holding banners with words of the title. ; Verses 3-5 printed as text on page [4]. ; "Electrotyped by Smith &…

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

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.

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