Andersonville Prison History

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Andersonville Prison is the most famous prison in the United State’s military history. Not only is it the most famous but also the largest of several military prisons established during the Civil War. In November of 1963, a Confederate captain was sent to assess the possibility of building a prison for captured Union soldiers in the small village of Andersonville, Georgia. Its close proximity to the Southwestern Railroad, the abundance of freshwater, and its deep-south location made Andersonville an ideal Confederate prison location. Andersonville was therefore chosen as the site for a prison that would later become infamous for the thousands of prisoners that would die there before the end of the war. Construction of the camp began in January of 1864. The first prisoners arrived on February 25, while the stockade was still under construction. Designed to hold 10,000 prisoners, the prison was soon overcrowded, holding 22,000 by June. Although the prison was enlarged in June, the number of prisoners continued to swell. By August 1864, more than 31,000 prisoners were confined in Andersonville. The exhibition was organized because of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the city of Scranton. Ezra Hoyt Ripple was born on February 14, 1842 in …show more content…
There were twenty- two paintings on display. One of the paintings at the art exhibition that stood out to me the most was “Shot At The Deadline”. Just looking at the paining we can see how hard it was for the soldiers who were captured. The painting is filled with starvation and death. The man in the painting looks weak, death and also even with gun shot wound his face shows no sign of pain or torture. Three items that were worth noting was the history behind all these painting, glass slide show piece, and most importantly it worth noting why Ripple decided he wanted to publish the illustrations outside the walls of his
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