The Horrors of Andersonville: Life and Death Inside a Civil War Prison

by Catherine Gourley

The Confederate prison known as Andersonville existed for only the last fourteen months of the Civil Warbut its well-documented legacy of horror has lived on in the diaries of its prisoners and the transcripts of the trial of its commandant. The diaries describe appalling conditions in which vermin-infested men were crowded into an open stockade with a single befouled stream as their water source. Food was scarce and medical supplies virtually nonexistent...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761342125
• ISBN13: 9780761342120
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12