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

ANDERSONVILLE, Ga. (WALB ... will begin at 7 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. Please note that the main entrance, prison site tour road, and National Prisoner of War Museum will be closing at regular ...

There are disasters you remember because they are too big, too loud, too public to forget. Then there are the ones that ...

These weren't wealthy passengers or prominent names, but Union soldiers, freshly released from Confederate prison camps like Andersonville and Cahaba. Starved. Sick. Forgotten already by a country ...

The Pell City Historical Society presents a program on the Andersonville Prison on Wednesday, April 16, at The Venue in downtown Pell City at 1 p.m. The program features Dr. Norman Dasinger ...

“American soldiers had not experienced conditions so wretched since Andersonville prison camp during the Civil War. Of O’Donnell, one prisoner wrote that ‘Hell is only a state of ...

After the war, Atlanta rebuilt rapidly and reclaimed its status as the pivotal city of the South. These artifacts from Andersonville Prison show a glimpse of day-to-day life in the notorious ...

John Frankenheimer pain stakingly chronicles prisoners of war struggling to survive in an ill run Confederate prison camp during the Civil War ... fault in this glimpse of the notorious place called ...

He learned later that a customer who had fought in the Civil War had brought them back from a Confederate prison in Andersonville, Georgia, and had given them to Old John as a souvenir.

Marshal Morrison had vowed to kill Santee when he served as a guard at Andersonville prison camp during the Civil War. Sam Buckhart must work as a Marshal for a town after the People's Committee hangs ...