Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw a site where over 13,000 Union soldiers died. Convicted of war crimes and ...

and one of the most enduring is that the Union prisoner-of-war camp at Rock Island, Illinois, was “as bad as” or even “worse than” the Confederate hell hole at Andersonville. This documentary explores ...

The Pell City Historical Society presents a program on the Andersonville Prison on Wednesday, April 16, at The Venue in downtown Pell City at 1 p.m. The program features Dr. Norman Dasinger ...