Author: Peter H. WoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780674053205
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The picture in the attic -- Behind enemy lines -- The woman in the sunlight.
Near Andersonville
Author: Peter H. WoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780674053205
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The picture in the attic -- Behind enemy lines -- The woman in the sunlight.
Andersonville
Author: Mackinlay KantorPublisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780808576174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author's extensive research and nearly twenty-five years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's bestselling masterwork tells the heartbreaking story of the notorious Georgia prison where 50,000 Northern soldiers suffered - and 14,000 died - and of the people whose lives were changed by the grim camp where the best and the worst of the Civil War came together. Here is the savagery of the camp commandant, the deep compassion of a nearby planter and his gentle daughter, the merging of valor and viciousness within the stockade itself, and the day-to-day fight for survival among the cowards, cutthroats, innocents, and idealists thrown together by the brutal struggle between North and South. A moving portrait of the bravery of people faced with hopeless tragedy, this is the inspiring American classic of an unforgettable period in American history.
Escape from Andersonville
Author: Gene HackmanPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312363734
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
An explosive novel of the Civil War about one man’s escape from a notorious Confederate prison camp---and his dramatic return to save his men. July 1864. Union officer Nathan Parker has been imprisoned at nightmarish Andersonville prison camp in Georgia along with his soldiers. As others die around them, Nathan and his men hatch a daring plan to allow him to escape through a tunnel and make his way to Vicksburg, where he intends to alert his superiors to the imprisonment and push for military action. His efforts are blocked by higher-ups in the military, so Parker takes matters into his own hands. Together with a shady, dangerous ex-soldier and smuggler named Marcel Lafarge and a fascinating collection of cutthroats, soldiers, and castoffs, a desperate Parker organizes a private rescue mission to free his men before it’s too late. Exciting, thoroughly researched, and dramatic, Escape from Andersonville is a Civil War novel filled with action, memorable characters, and vividly realized descriptions of the war’s final year.
Pennsylvania at Andersonville, Georgia
Author: Pennsylvania. Andersonville Memorial CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
History of Andersonville Prison
Author: Ovid L. FutchPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813059402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
In February 1864, five hundred Union prisoners of war arrived at the Confederate stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia. Andersonville, as it was later known, would become legendary for its brutality and mistreatment, with the highest mortality rate--over 30 percent--of any Civil War prison. Fourteen months later, 32,000 men were imprisoned there. Most of the prisoners suffered greatly because of poor organization, meager supplies, the Federal government’s refusal to exchange prisoners, and the cruelty of men supporting a government engaged in a losing battle for survival. Who was responsible for allowing so much squalor, mismanagement, and waste at Andersonville? Looking for an answer, Ovid Futch cuts through charges and countercharges that have made the camp a subject of bitter controversy. He examines diaries and firsthand accounts of prisoners, guards, and officers, and both Confederate and Federal government records (including the transcript of the trial of Capt. Henry Wirz, the alleged "fiend of Andersonville"). First published in 1968, this groundbreaking volume has never gone out of print.
The Sentinels of Andersonville
Author: Tracy GrootPublisher: Tyndale House Publishers
ISBN: 1414359489
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with Andersonville Prison's atrocities and learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given.
Andersonville
Author: William MarvelPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807857816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In this carefully researched and compelling revisionist account, William Marvel provides a comprehensive history of Andersonville Prison and conditions within it.
Andersonville Diary, Escape, and List of the Dead
Author: John L. RansomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil war
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Horrors of Andersonville Rebel Prison
Author: Norton Parker ChipmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Andersonville
Author: John McElroyPublisher: Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN: 9781582181424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
This book describes the spectacle and process of seventy thousand young, strong, able-bodied men, starving and rotting to death in Andersonville prison in 1864-65.