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Map Andersonville Prison, Georgia in July 1864.

About this Item

Title

  • Andersonville Prison, Georgia in July 1864.

Summary

  • 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.

Names

  • Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918.

Created / Published

  • [1861-1865]

Headings

  • -  Wirz, Henry,--1823?-1865
  • -  Andersonville Prison--Pictorial works
  • -  Military prisons--Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  Andersonville (Ga.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons
  • -  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.
  • -  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 to 0311 USA vau

Digital Id

  • http:hdl.loc.gov/loc.ndlpcoop/gvhs01.vhs00039

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Andersonville Prison, Georgia in July. [to 1865, 1864] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00039/.

APA citation style:

Sneden, R. K. (1864) Andersonville Prison, Georgia in July. [to 1865] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00039/.

MLA citation style:

Sneden, Robert Knox. Andersonville Prison, Georgia in July. [to 1865, 1864] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00039/>.