March Member Meeting

Join us for our monthly member meeting featuring guest speaker Guy Prentice presenting “Andersonville Reexamined: An Archeological and Historical Study of the Civil War’s Most Infamous Prisoner of War Camp.”

Andersonville was viewed by the victorious Northern States as the scene of some of the worst atrocities suffered by prisoners during the American Civil War. Nearly one in three of the roughly 45,000 Union prisoners who passed through its gates died of malnutrition, exposure, disease, and the inhumanity of desperate men. After the war ended, the commandant of the prison camp, Capt. Henry Wirz, was tried, convicted and executed for the sufferings that the Union prisoners experienced,though many view him as a scapegoat who was wrongly blamed for the staggering number of Union prisoners that died at Andersonville from causes outside his control.

This lecture highlights the discoveries and findings of 50 years of archeology and recent historical research conducted…