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(April 2014)
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The Star Fort, view looking west
Tour Guide: This
earthwork, along with several others around the perimeter of the stockade,
was constructed to quell disturbances inside the prison and to guard against
Union cavalry attacks
Bill Bechmann photo
The Star Fort Walter Kasperczyk photo
 Marker
(The Star Fort) Walter Kasperczyk photo
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(July 2001) Northeast view of the stockade from marker
near the commandant's headquarters.
Panorama
from the Commadant's Perspective
Marker (The
Expanded Stockade)
Walter Kasperczyk photo
Marker for
southwest corner of stockade at right center of photo.
Site Marker (The
Commandant's Perspective): From these heights near headquarters, Capt.
Henry A. Wirz could observe everything within the prison walls. Envision
the white post perimeter as the stockade; 30,000 human beings within that
area; the din of all those voices, the groans from the hospital, the
shouts of the guards, the smell of unwashed clothes and bodies. Today's
landscape of quiet grass softens for us the images of Andersonville. Wirz,
the prison commandant, did not have that luxury
The
prison commandant, Capt. Henry A. Wirz, was responsible for maintaining
order and discipline, imposing punishment and providing rations. In search
of a scapegoat after the war, the federal government tried Wirz for
"murder, in violation of the laws of war," and sentenced him to
death
Some ten miles south of Andersonville,
residents of Americus complained of the smell. By the summer of 1864, the
stockade became so overcrowded that all those individual prisoners may
have appeared as a single, shuffling organism
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(July 2001)
Third hospital site, south of the stockade. The view is looking east. A
Confederate earthwork near the southeast corner of the stockade is in the
background
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(March 2010)
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The Prison Hospital
Walter Kasperczyk photo |
