He survived the harrowing conditions of the Confederate prison Andersonville before coming to Cohoes and sketching a famous drawing of the misery he endured there. O'Dea was a 19th-century ...

His name was Henry Wirz — and the horrors he presided over at Andersonville Prison shocked the world ... a manufacturer tried to cut costs Robert De Niro's daughter comes out as transgender ...

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 ...

© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. After surviving the Confederates’ notorious Andersonville Prison, Thomas O’Dea spent more than five ...

Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged on Nov. 10, 1865, in Washington, D.C., the only Confederate officer executed as a war criminal.

Mr. William L. Fulton, of No.183 Sands street, Brooklyn, who was a privatem the Twentieth Ohio Infantry, and was for nine months confined in Andersonville and other rebel prison pens, makes the ...

J.M. MOORE, A.Q.M., who was sent to Andersonville, Georgia ... effects of chills and fever are distinctly visible. The noted prison-pen is fifteen hundred and forty feet long, and seven hundred ...

and then reopen at 6 p.m. Feb. 24 is the 160th anniversary of the arrival of the first US soldiers to Camp Sumter prison, which has come down through history, better known as Andersonville Prison.” ...