Format Map
Contributors Sneden, Robert Knox
Dates 1861
Location Andersonville
Georgia
United States
Language Ng
Subjects Andersonville
Andersonville (Ga.)
Andersonville Prison
Civil War
Georgia
History
Military Prisons
Prisoners and Prisons
United States
Wirz, Henry
Title
Andersonville Prison, Georgia in July 1864.
Contributor Names
Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.
Created Published
[1861 to 1865]
Subject Headings
-  Wirz, Henry,--1823?-1865.
-  Andersonville Prison
-  Military prisons--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Georgia
-  Andersonville (Ga.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
-  United States--History--Prisoners and prisons.--Civil War, 1861-1865
-  United States--Georgia--Andersonville.
Notes
-  Lower margin of the map: "Whole Content of Stockade 25 1/2 acres, including swamp. Number of Prisoners July 1st."
-  NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this diary page.
-  This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society; please contact the institution for more information.
-  Illustrates a detailed outline of the actual prison yard with acreage and stockade dimensions given. Also, shows the surrounding area where the following sites were located: "death house," graveyard, rifle trenches, forts, including the one where Captain Henry Wirz had his headquarters and loghouse, Union hospital, cook house, and soup house.
-  Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
-  Robert Knox Sneden scrapbook (Mss5:7 Sn237:1), Virginia Historical Society.
-  In the Robert Knox Sneden diary, 1861-1865 (v. 5, p. 606).
-  Manuscripts
Medium
1 Map : Pen and Ink and Watercolor ; 18 X 14 Cm.
Repository
Virginia Historical Society P. O. Box 7311, Richmond, VA 23221-0311 USA vau
Digital Id
Gvhs01 Vhs00039 Http:Hdl.Loc.Gov/Loc.Ndlpcoop/Gvhs01.Vhs00039


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