Andersonville Prison, Georgia. South-east view, taken from the stockade Thirty three thousand prisoners in bastile Photographed by A.J. Riddle
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Photograph shows prisoners using latrines in the foreground, a group involved in a court martial or trial of a prisoner on the left, a structure with four poles and a blanket roof used as a barber shop in the middle, masses of huts, and a stockade in front of woods in the distance (Source: Notes by Sergeant Warren L. Goss of Co. H, 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Regiment, prisoner who aided the photographer at Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Goss, Warren (fl. ca. 1864-1880). Descriptions of A. J. Riddle's photographs).
Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073)
Purchased from: The Horse Soldier, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 2017.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
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