Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead-John L. Ransom

My Experiences as an Executioner · Nov 8, 2026 · 8h 32m

Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead by John L. Ransom.

This is his diary which he published some few years after the end of the Civil War. The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Camp Sumter (also known as Andersonville Prison), a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War…. The site is an iconic reminder of the horrors of Civil War prisons. It was commanded by Major Henry Wirz, who was tried and executed after the war for murder. It was overcrowded to four times its capacity, with inadequate water…