ANDERSONVILLE  , a See also:

• VILLAGE

village of See also:

• SUMTER
• SUMTER, THOMAS (1i36–1832)

Sumter See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

• GEORGIA

Georgia, U.S.A., in the S.W. See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, about 6o m . S . W . of See also:

• MACON
• MACON, NATHANIEL (1758-1837)

Macon, on the Central of Georgia railway . Pop . (1910) 174 . From See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1863 until the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the See also:

• CIVIL

Civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War it was the seat of a Confederate military See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison . A See also:

• TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract of 162 acres of See also:

• LAND

land near the village was cleared of trees and enclosed with a stockade . Prisoners began to arrive in See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1864, before the prison was completed and before adequate supplies had been received, and in May their number amounted to about 12,000 . In See also:

• JUNE

June the stockade was enlarged so as to include 262 acres, but the congestion was only temporarily relieved, and in See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August the number of prisoners exceeded 32,000 . No shelter had been provided for the inmates: the first arrivals made See also:

• RUDE, FRANCOIS (1784–1855)

rude sheds from the debris of the stockade; the others made tents of blankets and other available pieces of See also:

• CLOTH

cloth, or dug pits in the ground . Owing to the slender resources of the Confederacy, the prison was frequently See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short of See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food, and even when this was sufficient in quantity it was of a poor quality and poorly prepared on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the lack of cooking utensils . The See also:

• WATER

water See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply, deemed ample when the prison was planned, became polluted under the congested conditions .

During the summer of 1864 the prisoners suffered greatly from See also:

• HUNGER

hunger, exposure and disease, and in seven months about a third of them died . In the autumn, after the See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture of See also:

• ATLANTA

Atlanta, all the prisoners who could be moved were sent to Millen, Georgia and See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence, See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South Carolina . At Millen better arrangements prevailed, and when, after See also:

• SHERMAN
• SHERMAN, JOHN (x823-1900)
• SHERMAN, ROGER (1721–1793)

Sherman began his See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

march to the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea, the prisoners were returned to Andersonville, the conditions there were somewhat improved . During the war 49,485 prisoners were received at the Andersonville prison, and of these about 13,000 died . The terrible conditions obtaining there were due to the lack of food supplies in the Confederate States, the incompetence of the prison officials, and the refusal of the Federal authorities in 1864 to make exchanges of prisoners, thus filling the stockade with unlooked-for See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers . After the war See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry Wirz, the See also:

• SUPERINTENDENT

superintendent, was tried by a See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court-See also:

• MARTIAL (MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS)

martial, and on the loth of November 1865 was hanged, and the See also:

• REVELATION, BOOK OF

revelation of the sufferings of the prisoners was one of the factors that shaped public See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion regarding the South in the See also:

• NORTHERN

Northern states, after the close of the Civil War . The prisoners' See also:

• BURIAL

burial ground at Andersonville has been made a See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• CEMETERY (Gr. Korrsnri7pwv, from Hoiµav, to sleep)

cemetery, and contains 13,714 See also:

• GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL (1846— )

graves of which 921 are marked " unknown." There is an impartial account of the Andersonville prison in See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James F . See also:

• RHODES
• RHODES, CECIL JOHN (1853-1902)
• RHODES, JAMES FORD

Rhodes, See also:

• HISTORY

History of the See also:

• UNITED

United States (vol. v., New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, 1904) . The See also:

• PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN

partisan accounts are numerous; see, for instance, A . C . See also:

• HAMLIN, HANNIBAL (1809-189x)

Hamlin, Martyria; or, Andersonville Prison (See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston, 1866); and R . R .

See also:

• STEVENSON, ADLA1 EWING (1835- )
• STEVENSON, ROBERT (1772-1850)
• STEVENSON, ROBERT LEWIS BALFOUR (1850-1894)

Stevenson, The See also:

• SOUTHERN

Southern See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

Side; or, Andersonville Prison (See also:

• BALTIMORE
• BALTIMORE, GEORGE CALVERT, 1ST BARON (C. 1580—1632)

Baltimore, 1876) .