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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP11 Jun 2020 9:51 p.m. PST

…Civil War's Most Notorious Prison Camp

"On the evening of July 11, 1864, six men were marched into Andersonville Prison, surrounded by a cordon of guards, the prison commandant, and a Roman Catholic priest. The six men were handed over to a small execution squad, and while more than 26,000 Union prisoners looked on, the six were executed by hanging. The six, part of a larger group known as the Raiders, were killed, not by their Rebel enemies but by their fellow prisoners, for the crimes of robbing and assaulting their own comrades.

Who were these six men? Were they really guilty of the crimes they were accused of? Were they really, as some prisoners alleged, murderers? What role did their Confederate captors play in their trial and execution? What brought about their downfall? Relying on military records, diaries, memoirs written within five years of the prison closing, and the recently discovered trial transcript, author Gary Morgan has discovered a version of events that is markedly different from the version told in later day "memoirs" and repeated in the history books. Here, for the first time in a century and a half, is the real story of the Andersonville Raiders."

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gprokopo14 Jun 2020 9:20 p.m. PST

Hear the author interviewed on Civil War Talk Radio: link

You will be surprised.

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP15 Jun 2020 11:32 a.m. PST

Thanks!.


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