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- GLC#
- GLC04017
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 1864
- Author/Creator
- Walker, John Burns, fl. 1862-1865
- Title
- Andersonville Prison, Georgia
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 lithograph Height: 48.7 cm, Width: 61 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
A colored, lithographic view of the prison and POWs, printed underneath is the description: "Numbers 1 and 2 comprise Andersonville Prison an area of 26 acres, nearly five acres of which was an uninhabitable swamp. In June, July and August. 1864, 33.000 Union Prisoners were crowded on the remaining 21 acres." Walker, the man who sketched the image, is identified as a Andersonville POW and member of Co. G of the 141st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Lithograph made by Thomas Sinclair of Philadelphia.
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