Andersonville Raiders: Yankee Versus Yankee in the Civil War’s Most Notorious Prison Camp (Gary Morgan - UA) Atkinson ANGELA MAYER

ANGELA MAYER

by Noel Carpenter

This magisterial work breaks down the entire campaign (and all related operational maneuvers) into 21 map sets or “action-sections” enriched with 124 original full-page color maps

His wartime correspondence with pen pal and naval reservist

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Andersonville Raiders: Yankee Versus Yankee in the Civil War’s Most Notorious Prison Camp (Gary Morgan - UA) Atkinson ANGELA MAYERby Gary Morgan 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