The Express Newspaper – March 6th 2014
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The Express Newspaper – February 20, 2014
Andersonville Part II – by Sandy McBride
By midsummer of 1864, the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, which had begun accepting inmates in February, had become a hellhole. In August, the population of the prison, which was originally intended to house 10,000 prisoners, swelled to 33,000. The men were housed in tents, holes in the ground or rude huts. They were poorly fed and had no sanitary facilities. With the influx of new prisoners daily, the situation was becoming unbearable. Men were dying at the rate of 100 per day.
The entire article is in the 02-06 issue of the Express.
The Express Newspaper – February 6, 2014
This Month in the Civil War: Andersonville – by Sandy McBride
Here in February of 2014, I will step away from my established pattern of “this Month in the Civil War” in order to tell the story of Andersonville.
My interest in the history of Andersonville Prison in Georgia was piqued long ago. As a teenager, I read the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Andersonville” by MacKinlay Kantor. My father, noticing the book, commented that his mother had relatives who died there, but that was all he knew. It would be many years before I learned the story of the Blair brothers, Hiram, David and Joseph, great-uncles of my grandmother, Gladys Holden Hosley, and many more years before I would finally be able to make the trip to the site of the prison where David and Joseph died and the cemetery where they are buried.
The entire article is in the January 30th issue of the Express
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