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Journal Articles
Banks, J. (2018). Villain or Martyr? America’s Civil War, 30(6), 8–10.
The article discusses historic and public perception of Confederate commandant of the U.S. Civil War detention center Andersonville Prison in Andersonville, Georgia, particularly regarding his Wirz's alleged role in the deaths of 13,000 Union prisoners there, in addition to controversy surrounding a monument to Wirz in Andersonville.
DOMBY, A. H. (2017). Captives of Memory: The Contested Legacy of Race at Andersonville National Historic Site. Civil War History, 63(3), 253–294.
The article discusses the conflict over the ownership of the site of the U.S. Civil War facility the Andersonville Prison in Georgia and the cultural memory and meaning of Andersonville, particularly regarding the struggle between versions of history between Confederate defenders and those seeking to illuminate the experience of African Americans at the site.
Iowa and Andersonville. (1884). Annals of Iowa, 3, 65–87.
The article presents a description of the Confederate prisoner of war camp constructed in Andersonville, Georgia during the U.S. Civil War. Details are given outlining the topography and conditions of the prison, noting its extreme harshness. Accounts are given of large-scale abuses against Union soldiers who were assigned to the camp. A list of soldiers who died at the facility is given. Additional description is given to the events of the camp's emancipation and the legal justice pursued upon the administrators of the facility.
JOHNSON, D. (2011). Sergeant Major Robert H. Kellogg 16th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. Connecticut History, 50(1), 71–73.
An essay is presented on Sergeant Major Robert H. Kellogg of the 16th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, focusing on his military career in the U.S. Civil War. It examines his regiment's involvement the Battle of Antietam, Maryland and notes that the regiment was captured and imprisoned at Andersonville Prison in Georgia. The author comments on the diary Kellogg kept at Andersonville and his post-war efforts to promote awareness of prisoners' conditions there.
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