The Andersonville Trial
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The Andersonville Trial is a 1959 hit Broadway play by Saul Levitt. It was later adapted into a television production and presented as part of the PBS anthology series Hollywood Television Theatre.
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Andersonville Prison
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Andersonville Prison, located near Andersonville, Georgia, was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final fourteen months of the American Civil War. Most of the site lies in southwestern Maco
The Andersonville Trial
…anthology series Hollywood Television Theatre. Interest in the subject—the actual 1865 court-martial of Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate Andersonville prison, where thousands of Union prisoners died—had been stimulated by MacKinlay Kantor's historical novel Andersonville, which won the Pulitzer Prize for…
Reconstruction of a section of the stockade wall
A depiction of Andersonville Prison by John L. Ransom, former prisoner
A drawing of Andersonville Prison by Thomas O'Dea, former prisoner
Providence Spring, the only source of clean drinking water for the prisoners (fountain erected in 1901)