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Andersonville: The Last Depot (review)

Andersonville: The Last Depot (review) Reviews Andersonville: The Last Depot. By William Marvel. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 337 pp. Cloth, $29.95. Reviewed by Robert C. Kenzer, Associate Professor of History at the University ofRichmond and author of Kinship and Neighborhood in a Southern Community: Orange County, North Carolina, 1849-1881. William Marvel begins his award-winning study of Andersonville Prison by observing, "Some 41,000 men shuffled into the prison stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, between February of 1864 and April of 1865. Of those, perhaps 26,000 lived long enough to reach home. Theirs was undoubtedly the most unpleasant experience of the Civil War, but, almost without exception, those who wrote about Andersonville appear to have exaggerated their tribulations at that place." Clearly, Marvel's emphasis on the soldiers who survived the experience suggests how much he differs from previous chroniclers of Andersonville. While many readers will not be persuaded by the book's conclusions, all should find this work the most thoroughly researched and provocative analysis of the subject to date. Andersonville Prison was created early in 1864, largely to relieve the situation at Belle Isle prison in Richmond. At Belle Isle, which was located in the middle of the James River, conditions had so http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Andersonville: The Last Depot (review)

Southern Cultures , Volume 2 (2) – Jan 4, 1996

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Reviews Andersonville: The Last Depot. By William Marvel. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 337 pp. Cloth, $29.95. Reviewed by Robert C. Kenzer, Associate Professor of History at the University ofRichmond and author of Kinship and Neighborhood in a Southern Community: Orange County, North Carolina, 1849-1881. William Marvel begins his award-winning study of Andersonville Prison by observing, "Some 41,000 men shuffled into the prison stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, between February of 1864 and April of 1865. Of those, perhaps 26,000 lived long enough to reach home. Theirs was undoubtedly the most unpleasant experience of the Civil War, but, almost without exception, those who wrote about Andersonville appear to have exaggerated their tribulations at that place." Clearly, Marvel's emphasis on the soldiers who survived the experience suggests how much he differs from previous chroniclers of Andersonville. While many readers will not be persuaded by the book's conclusions, all should find this work the most thoroughly researched and provocative analysis of the subject to date. Andersonville Prison was created early in 1864, largely to relieve the situation at Belle Isle prison in Richmond. At Belle Isle, which was located in the middle of the James River, conditions had so

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Published: Jan 4, 1996

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