War Fund Committee (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Andersonville Prison, represented in the collection through its hospital records and registers, was located in southwest Georgia and operated for 15 months between 1864 and 1865. The site was used by the Confederate Army as a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Union soldiers. At the time of its closure, almost 13,000 Union soldiers had died at Andersonville. The records were collected by E. P. Hopkins, a captured soldier from Ohio who worked as a steward in the prison hospital.
- Sources
- Southeast Archeological Center. "Andersonville Civil War Prison Historical Background." Accessed February 24, 2011. http://www.nps.gov/seac/histback.htm
From the guide to the Civil War collection, 1804-1865, (Brooklyn Historical Society)
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