The proposed memorial highway would run through tribal lands in Leelanau County, where descendants of Company K soldiers ...

Here's what to know. What happened at Andersonville in the Civil War? Andersonville was the site of the largest prison in the Civil War, Camp Sumter. "The prison itself was not fully prepared to ...

Here's what to know. Andersonville was the site of the largest prison in the Civil War, Camp Sumter. "The prison itself was not fully prepared to start bringing prisoners in," Sernaker said.

He was the only Confederate officer executed for war crimes. His name was Henry Wirz — and the horrors he presided over at Andersonville Prison shocked the world. As 13,000 Union soldiers died ...

The Rock Island Civil War Prison: Andersonville of the North? This documentary tells the story of the Rock Island Civil War Prison and how it acquired the undeserved reputation as the ...

He would spend six-and-a-half months at the infamous Andersonville prison in southwest Georgia, a site that would come to symbolize the brutal suffering of the Civil War. Almost a year after his ...

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.

The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down ...

and denied in toto the truth of the statements made by Union soldiers on their return from Confederate prison pens. Hundreds of emaciated men were examined under oath as to the treatment they ...