Andersonville

by David W. Rintels

This screenplay depicts the pain and filth and evil and suffering and dying found in a prisoner of war camp during the Civil War.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080712088X
• ISBN13: 9780807120880
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Reviewer from Detroit needs to realize.............

Mr. Vaughan was not attempting to write a text book to be used in Colleges or Universities. His writes to give readers a brief but intertaining, good story for those of use who read for pleasure. Mr. Vaughans books are very well written and are always fun to read.

13,000 man ordeal

Robert Vaughan's Andersonville brings to life the horrors that the union prisoners had to deal with on a daily basis. This is not meant to be a historically accurate novel telling the reader all the events that took place in the prison. The book shows the reader what the average prisoner had to go through. Vaughan does a good job showing the savage attacks of the Raiders, a group that attacked new prisoners and robbed them of their supplies. Vaughan also does a great job showing the boredom that filled the prisoners lives. The conflict that man has with himself by not drinking the water and by going a couple of days with out food. This book is a quick read and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat with unique twists in the story line. I recommend this book to Civil war Buffs and anyone who is looking for a good book to read on an airplane or a train.

A Union Horror !

Andersonville was a most serious death camp for captured Northern Soilders. When I saw the movie it broke my heart to see the way we were treated by southerns. The account was well written and the part where the Raiders were on trial and then the part where they were hung. Showed that there was some justice being served,espically with Wirtz holding them while trial was being readied. The real test was shown with the escape and recapture, it is known now that the first duty of any military personnel is to escape from the enemy. My heart really goes out to those who fought and were captured by the Rebels. In the end of the book the tomestone of Martin Blackburn was a good way to close this book. It os sad to know that Those who died in this conflict put there lives down to defend this country. I pray that we never have a consentration camp here in America with Americans held in it ever again.Thank you S.R. Haldeman, Scott M. Great Lakes Naval Hospital

The Harshness of Civil War Prisons

Andersonville, is a name that will be forever remembered in infamy by all Civil War Historians. I think the author, Robert Vaughn, captured the terrible reality of this prison camp in his book. Though it did have missing some other details I thought it was very good and deserved to be read.