Image / Union prisoners confined in Camp Sumpter, near Andersonviile, GA

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Title: Union prisoners confined in Camp Sumpter, near Andersonviile, GA
Creator: Blatz, Henry, artist
E. Sachse & Co., printer
Schwamb, Chas. A., publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1865
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of an aerial view of Camp Sumpter Confederate military prison (Andersonville Prison) located near Andersonville, Georgia, during the American Civil War; densely packed tents and soldiers surrounded by stockade walls and barricades manned by artillery; sites on map numbered 1-18 with key printed in bottom margin.
"Published by Chas. A. Schwamb. Annapolis Md. Drawn by Henry Blatz."--text, bottom left margin. "Entered according to Act of Congress A.D. 1865 by Chas. A. Schwamb in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Md."--text, bottom center margin. "Lith & Print by E. Sachse & Co. 104 S. Charles St. Balto."-- text, bottom right margin. "1. Head Quarters. 2. Rebel Camp. 3. Hospital. 4. Cook House. 5. Death House. 6. Death Line. 7. The Island. 8. Sutlers Shop. 9. Police Quarters. : 10 Hospitals along the Death Line. 11. Market Street. 12. Broad Street. 13. Inside Stockade. 14. 2nd Line Stockade. 15. 3th Line Stockade. 16. Lieut. Quarters. 17. Washing Place. 18. Rifle Pits."--text, bottom margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 31.43 x 48.9 cm (12 3/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_MIL_003320
443026
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4113
Language: English
Subject: Andersonville Prison--Pictorial works
Confederate States of America. Army--Prisons--Pictorial works
Correctional institutions--Pictorial works
Military prisons--Pictorial works
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Military
Large Size
American Civil War
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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