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Author

Gourley, Catherine, 1950-

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

Imprint

Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, c2010.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
PHS Non-Fiction	973.7 Gourley	---	Available

Description	192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Indexed In:	Junior Library Guild
Summary	"When the [American Civil] war ended, the Union army arrested the commandant of Andersonville, Captain Henry Wirz. A military court charged Wirz with maliciously conspiring with the leaders of the Confederacy to torture and destroy the lives of thousands of prisoners of war. Massive numbers of prisoners under his supervision died, but what really happened inside the gates of Andersonville?"--p. 6.
Audience	15 & up.
	10 & up.
Study Program	AR RL 7.8 8.0 PHS
Awards	A Junior Library Guild selection
Subject	Wirz, Henry, 1823?-1865 -- Juvenile literature.
	Wirz, Henry, 1823?-1865 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Juvenile literature.
	Andersonville Prison -- Juvenile literature.
	Confederate States of America. Army -- Officers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Prisoners of war -- Georgia -- Andersonville -- Juvenile literature.
	Trials (Military offenses) -- Washington (D.C.) -- Juvenile literature.
	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN	9780761342120 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) : 13.95