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The horrors of Andersonville : life and death inside a civil war prison / [Catherine Gourley].

Andersonville (portion title)
Gourley, Catherine, 1950- (Author).

Summary:

Tells the story of Andersonville, a Civil War prison camp in Georgia where thousands of Union prisoners died in the last fourteen months of the war, drawing from a variety of documents to consider whether the prison's commandant, Captain Henry Wirz, was justifiably convicted and hanged.

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  • ISBN: 9780761342120
  • ISBN: 0761342125
  • Physical Description: 192 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2010]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-188) and index.
Target Audience Note:
Young Adult
Young Adult Follett Library Resources
990L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.8 8 136282.

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Wirz, Henry, 1823?-1865.
Wirz, Henry, 1823?-1865 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Andersonville Prison.
Confederate States of America. Army > Officers.
Prisoners of war > Georgia > Andersonville.
Trials (Military offenses) > Washington (D.C.)
Military offenses > Washington (D.C.)
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons.
Genre:
Young adult literature.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Young adult literature.

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