Andersonville Raiders

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  • Andersonville Raiders Book Detail

  • Author : Gary Morgan
  • Release Date : 2020-03-17
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 237
  • ISBN 13 : 0811768910
  • File Size : 85,85 MB
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Andersonville Raiders by Gary Morgan PDF Summary

Book Description: It was the most witnessed execution in US history. On the evening of July 11, 1864, six men were marched into Andersonville Prison, surrounded by a cordon of guards, the prison commandant, and a Roman Catholic priest. The six men were handed over to a small execution squad, and while more than 26,000 Union prisoners looked on, the six were executed by hanging. The six, part of a larger group known as the Raiders, were killed, not by their Rebel enemies but by their fellow prisoners, for the crimes of robbing and assaulting their own comrades. Who were these six men? Were they really guilty of the crimes they were accused of? Were they really, as some prisoners alleged, murderers? What role did their Confederate captors play in their trial and execution? What brought about their downfall? Relying on military records, diaries, memoirs written within five years of the prison closing, and the recently discovered trial transcript, author Gary Morgan has discovered a version of events that is markedly different from the version told in later day “memoirs” and repeated in the history books. Here, for the first time in a century and a half, is the real story of the Andersonville Raiders.

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Andersonville Raiders

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It was the most witnessed execution in US history. On the evening of July 11, 1864, six men were marched into Andersonville Prison, surrounded by a cordon of gu

History of Andersonville Prison

History of Andersonville Prison

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In February 1864, five hundred Union prisoners of war arrived at the Confederate stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia. Andersonville, as it was later known, wo

The True Story of Andersonville Prison

The True Story of Andersonville Prison

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Looks at Andersonville Prison's commandant during the U.S. Civil War, Confederate Major Henry Wirz, who was arrested and later found guilty on war crimes charge

Trial of Henry Wirz

Trial of Henry Wirz

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