Download or read book Surviving Andersonville written by Ed Glennan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a documentary work offering a first-person account of a Union soldier's daily adversity while a prisoner of war from 20 September 1863 to 4 June 1865. In 1891, while a patient at the Leavenworth National Home, Irish immigrant Edward Glennan began to write down his experiences in vivid detail, describing the months of malnutrition, exposure, disease and self-doubt. The first six months Glennan was incarcerated at Libby and Danville prisons in Virginia. On 20 March 1864, Glennan entered Camp Sumter, located near Andersonville, Georgia. He reminisced about the events of his eight-month captivity at Andersonville, such as the hanging of the Raider Six, escape tunnels, gambling, trading, ration wagons, and disease. Afflicted with scurvy, Glennan nearly lost his ability to walk. To increase his chances for survival, he skillfully befriended other prisoners, sharing resources acquired through trade, theft and trickery. His friends left him either by parole or death. On 14 November 1864, Glennan was transported from Andersonville to Camp Parole in Maryland; there he remained until his discharge on 4 June 1865.
Download or read book History of Andersonville Prison written by Ovid L. Futch and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2011-03-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Surviving Andersonville written by Ed Glennan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a documentary work offering a first-person account of a Union soldier's daily adversity while a prisoner of war from 20 September 1863 to 4 June 1865. In 1891, while a patient at the Leavenworth National Home, Irish immigrant Edward Glennan began to write down his experiences in vivid detail, describing the months of malnutrition, exposure, disease and self-doubt. The first six months Glennan was incarcerated at Libby and Danville prisons in Virginia. On 20 March 1864, Glennan entered Camp Sumter, located near Andersonville, Georgia. He reminisced about the events of his eight-month captivity at Andersonville, such as the hanging of the Raider Six, escape tunnels, gambling, trading, ration wagons, and disease. Afflicted with scurvy, Glennan nearly lost his ability to walk. To increase his chances for survival, he skillfully befriended other prisoners, sharing resources acquired through trade, theft and trickery. His friends left him either by parole or death. On 14 November 1864, Glennan was transported from Andersonville to Camp Parole in Maryland; there he remained until his discharge on 4 June 1865.
Download or read book Andersonville diary written by J.L. Ransom and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 2014 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most starkly vivid and detailed accounts of survival in Georgia's notorious Andersonville prison during the American Civil War. John Ransom was only 20 years old at the time of his capture. He kept a nearly daily diary during his year of misery at the Confederate prison. He and his fellow Union prisoners endured lice, starvation, freezing cold, killing heat, theft from other inmates...and Captain Wirtz. "Capt. Wirtz very domineering and abusive. Is afraid to come into camp any more. There are a thousand men in here who would willingly die if they could kill him first." Death was a daily occurrence. Yet Ransom knew if he gave up hope, he would die. He somehow kept his humor and kept on writing. Through two escapes, time in a Rebel hospital, and eventual freedom, you'll read a POW account like none you've ever read before.
Download or read book A History of Andersonville Prison Monuments written by Stacy W. Reaves and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1865, the nation learned of the atrocities and horrors of the Southern prison camp at Andersonville, Georgia. An army expedition and Clara Barton identified the graves of the thirteen thousand who perished there and established the Andersonville National Cemetery. In the 1890s, veterans and the Woman's Relief Corps, wanting to ensure the nation never forgot the tragedy, began preserving the site. The former prisoners expressed in granite their sorrow and gratitude to those who died or survived the prison camp. Join author and historian Stacy W. Reaves as she recounts the horrendous conditions of the prison and the tremendous efforts to memorialize the men within.
Download or read book The Horrors of Andersonville written by Catherine Gourley and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes life in Andersonville, a notorious Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the last months of the American Civil War.
Download or read book Andersonville written by James R. Compton and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dispatch Carrier and Memoirs of Andersonville Prison written by William N. Tyler and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Dispatch Carrier and Memoirs of Andersonville Prison" is the war memoirs of Union soldier William N. Tyler on his wartime duties during the American Civil War. Tyler gives a thrilling description of his work as a dispatch carrier as a young man in his twenties. He also gives his other experiences during the war, including the dramatic events leading to his capture, imprisonment, prison escape and recapture again by enemy forces. The book paints a vivid picture of life in the different American camps during the Civil War, the rigors of service and the state of the prison camps of the time.
Download or read book Andersonville Diary Escape and List of the Dead written by John L. Ransom and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surviving Andersonville written by Dora L. Costa and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven percent of the Union Army prisoners captured July 1863 or later died in captivity. At Andersonville the death rate may have been as high as 40 percent. How did men survive such horrific conditions? Using two independent data sets we find that friends had a statistically significant positive effect on survival probabilities and that the closer the ties between friends as measured by such identifiers as ethnicity, kinship, and the same hometown the bigger the impact of friends on survival probabilities.
Download or read book John Ransom s Andersonville Diary written by John L. Ransom and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1988 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ransom was a twenty-year-old Union soldier when he wascaptured in 1863 and became a prisoner of war. Held in the infamousAndersonville prison until he was near death, Ransom never gave up his loveof life. He hated the conditions of his captivity, but not his captors--men likehimself who were caught in the whirlwind of forces beyond their control.With a rate honesty simplicity, and insight, Ransom unfolds a tale of struggleand survival in the worst of the confederate prison camps. His diary,enhanced by his own drawings, is a testament to the indomitable humanspirit and provides a unique viewpoint of the most wrenching of America'swars.
Download or read book Martyria or Andersonville Prison written by Augustus C. Hamlin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Martyria; or, Andersonville Prison" by Augustus C. Hamlin. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Life and Death in Andersonville written by M V B Phillips and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and harrowing account of the experience of Union prisoners of war held captive at the infamous Andersonville prison during the American Civil War. The book draws upon first-person accounts and official records to present a detailed and moving picture of the suffering and death that took place at the camp, as well as the courage and resilience of those who survived. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Angel of Andersonville Prince of Tahiti written by Debby Burnett Safranski and published by Debby Safranski. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's difficult to read the life story of Dorence Atwater and not believe it's a work of fiction. His normal 1800s life became a nightmare that turned into a fairy tale. From his lifelong friendship with Miss Clara Barton to marrying a Tahitian princess, it was a life that comes along once every 500 years-maybe. From growing up in Terryville CT, surviving the terrible Civil War Prison at Andersonville, living through the Great San Fransisco earthquake to, in the end, being given a royal Tahitian funeral, he truly lived a life surrounded by Angels.
Download or read book Andersonville written by MacKinlay Kantor and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Pilgrimage to the Shrines of Patriotism written by New York (State). Andersonville Monument Dedication Commission and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the report of the commission to dedicate the monument erected by the State of New York in Andersonville, Georgia to commemorate the heroism, sacrifices and patriotism of more than nine thousands of her sons who were confined in that prison, of whom more than two thousand five hundred perished there, with an account of services of the New York resident surviving Andersonville veterans held thereat and also enroute at Richmond and Danville, VA., Salisbury, N.C., and Lookout Mountain, Tenn., April 26-30, 1914.
Download or read book John Ransom s Civil War Diary written by John L. Ransom and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John L. Ransom joined the Union Army in 1862, serving as brigade quartermaster of the Ninth Michigan Volunteer Cavalry. A year later, the 20-year-old soldier was captured in Tennessee and interned at the notorious Georgia prison camp, Andersonville. Ransom's harrowing firsthand account of Civil War prison life constitutes a valuable historical record — a true story not only of cruelty, death, and deprivations but also of acts of courage and kindness that ensured the young soldier's survival and preserved his faith in humanity.
