He was the only Confederate officer executed for war crimes. His name was Henry Wirz — and the horrors he presided over at ...

Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter, was a Georgia prison used for impounding Union Soldiers during the last 14 months of the Civil War. Andersonville encompassed 26.5 acres and was ...

O'Dea was a proud man who felt some of the first accounts from Andersonville inadequately captured its history. O'Dea started drawing in 1879 after seeing a report that portrayed the prison as ...

wirz, of andersonville prison. father hamilton's strange story of how wirz was sacrificed by secretary of war stanton. share full article. oct. 14, 1883.

Keeper of Andersonville Prison. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

After surviving Andersonville Prison, Union Army veteran Thomas O’Dea completed this drawing of it from memory in 1885. “In all the annals of civilization and barbarism, there never was, and I ...

Memorial Day is the day we remember the U.S. military service members who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country.. They're never forgotten at Andersonville National Historic Site, one of 433 ...

Dr. Michael Gray’s episode of ‘Prison Chronicles’ will focus on Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prison camp in Georgia. Infamous for its brutal conditions, lack of food and overcrowding ...

“Relics of Andersonville Prison” (left) is an 1866 photograph of objects left behind by prisoners held at the notorious Andersonville Prison (bottom right) during the Civil War. The objects were ...

East Stroudsburg University Professor of History Michael P. Gray, Ph.D., who is an expert on Civil War-era prisons, will be in an episode of “Prison Chronicles." ...