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Author:
Gourley, Catherine, 1950-
Title:
The horrors of Andersonville life and death inside a civil war prison [Catherine Gourley]. [electronic resource]
Format:
[electronic resource]
Publisher:
Twenty-First Century Books
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
192 p. ill., map 24 cm.
Reproduction Info:
Electronic reproduction. Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, 2010.
Subject:
Wirz, Henry,--1823?-1865
Andersonville Prison
Confederate States of America--Army--Officers
Prisoners of war--Andersonville (Ga.)
Military offenses--Washington (D.C.)
Electronic books
United States--Prisoners and prisons--Prisoners and prisons--1861-1865, Civil War
Notes:
Title proper from title frame. Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-188) and index.
Summary:
Tells the story of Andersonville, a Civil War prison camp in Georgia where thousands of Union prisoners died in the last fourteen months of the war, drawing from a variety of documents to consider whether the prison's commandant, Captain Henry Wirz, was justifiably convicted and hanged.
Indexed by:
Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011
Wilson's Junior High School, October 2010
School Library Journal, April 2010
Booklist, March 2010
Horn Book, October 2010
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2010
Library Media Connection, August 2010
ISBN:
9780761359869
0761359869
Locations:
NPSX771 -- North Polk High School (Alleman)

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