© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. After surviving the Confederates’ notorious Andersonville Prison, Thomas O’Dea spent more than five ...
Among the prominent Civil War veterans laid to rest in the Capital Region is Union soldier Thomas O'Dea. He survived the harrowing conditions of the Confederate prison Andersonville before coming to ...
Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged on Nov. 10, 1865, in Washington, D.C., the only Confederate officer executed as a war criminal. In ...
For 14 months late in the Civil War, Andersonville was probably the worst place on earth, a horror show from beginning to end. Alpheus Pike of Bloomington spent more than three months at this ...
The Wilkes-Barre Record newspaper on Oct. 16, 1903, published a lengthy two-page story about eight men from Wilkes-Barre, describing their horrific experiences as war prisoners at the Confederate ...
Morris County leaders honored nine of their own during an annual Veterans Day ceremony, including a Civil War hero who survived the infamous Andersonville Prison before returning home to serve as ...
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