Andersonville Prison, Race, and the Whitewashing of History

Pat Young

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The Deadline at Andersonville.

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African American Shanty at Andersonville.

We know of the suffering and death at Andersonville prison during its fourteen months as a Confederate prison for captured Union soldiers in 1864 and 1865. After the war, it was a focal point of African American resistance to ****, white terror, and the efforts of the adherents of the Lost Cause to rewrite and erase history.

Adam H. Domby is assistant professor of history at the College of Charleston, had an interesting article in the September issue of Civil War History entitled The Contested Legacy of Race at Andersonville National Historic Site. Dombyis tells I story I had never heard before, that perhaps bears some examination here.
 
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