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Image displayed is of the confederates POW camp, Andersonville, during the U.S. civil war. Depicted is the disbursement of rations to prisoners from the unions side of the war.

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,…

Andersonville prison burial trenches displaying men standing over burial with tools in hand.

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…

Areas of the sketch are numbered, the labels at the bottom are transcribed below:

1. Head Quarters,
2. Rebel Camp.
3. Hospital,
4. Cook House,
5. Death House,
6. Death Line,
7. The Island,
8. Sutler's Camp,
9. Police Quarters.

10.…

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

Image of nine vignettes portraying American Civil War battle scenes surrounding a moonlit evening scene of a man and woman embracing near two trees with a large snake on the ground nearby; goddess Columbia with American flag at top center; scene…

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

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

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