Andersonville Prison, Georgia in July 1864

Illustrates a detailed outline of the actual prison yard with acreage and stockade dimensions given. Also, shows the surrounding area where the following sites were located: "death house," graveyard, rifle trenches, forts, including the one where Captain Henry Wirz had his headquarters and loghouse, Union hospital, cook house, and soup house.
Lower margin of the map: "Whole Content of Stockade 25 1/2 acres, including swamp. Number of Prisoners July 1st."
NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this diary page.
This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society; please contact the institution for more information.
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
Robert Knox Sneden scrapbook (Mss5:7 Sn237:1), Virginia Historical Society.
In the Robert Knox Sneden diary, 1861-1865 (v. 5, p. 606).
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