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Visiting a Novel in Georgia
A
ndersonville (The World Publishing Co., labeled Unknown,
1955), a novel about an infamous Confederate still is open for
POW camp in Georgia, won the 1956 Pulitzer veterans’ burials.
Prize for fi ction. Author MacKinlay Kantor, a war cor- Andersonville also
respondent in World War II and Korea, writes of many is home to the Nation-
conversations with Civil War veterans and “40 years of al Prisoner of War Museum. Dedicated in 1999, its exhibits,
general reading on the war.” As mementos, photos, and oral histories powerfully depict the
a result, the language of Ander- experiences of POWs from the Revolutionary War to today.
sonville refl ects the fl avor of the Learn more at www.nps.gov/ande.
time, yet reads easily. — Col. Glenn Pribus, USAF-Ret., and Marilyn Pribus
Considered shockingly ex-
plicit in the 1950s, it dramatizes
the appalling conditions at the
camp where nearly 13,000
Union troops perished in 14
months from disease, starvation, and exposure and at the
hands of other prisoners. At one point, 32,000 were held in
the 26-acre stockade with barely enough room to sit down.
Today, Andersonville National Historic Site is
serene with a visitor center, a partial recreation of the
stockade, and the state monuments typical of a Civil
War site. Andersonville National Cemetery, with its
long, weathered rows of numbered gravestones, many
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