The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

Author events in and around Atlanta, including with the authors of "Fitting Indian," "Freedom Ship," "The Fate of the Day," and "Remember Us." ...

His name was Henry Wirz — and the horrors he presided over at Andersonville Prison shocked the world. As 13,000 Union soldiers died under his command, justice came calling. This is the chilling ...

In a later battle, almost all the men of the 16th were captured and sent to the notorious Confederate prison at Andersonville ... Gordon’s new book on the 16th, A Broken Regiment, is but ...

it's helping create a life post-prison The Prison Book Project, which has operated out of Open Books since 2000, sends books to prison inmates around the state, trying to help them either pass the ...

(That book likely was Hackman's third novel, "Escape from Andersonville," published in 2008, about a Civil War prison escape, written in collaboration with Daniel Lenihan. Overall, Hackman wrote ...

It is no coincidence that one book that tries to explain the Confederacy ... troops and the cruelty and mismanagement of Andersonville Prison had a lot to do with nonsoldierly behavior.

A Florida children’s book author and her husband were each sentenced to more than a decade in prison after pleading guilty to abusing their three adopted children. Jennifer Wolfthal ...

When I unfairly pushed him to recommend a single Civil War-era book, he unhesitatingly said “The Southern Side; or, Andersonville Prison,” by R. Randolph Stevenson. At Andersonville ...

or stories about life in prison are often censored, according to PEN America research. Researchers found that, in addition to banned book lists and categories, censorship also exists from on-the ...

“This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes From the Appalachian Prison Book Project,” contains a wealth of information about the Applachian project and its effects. The book includes ...

Her first book is on the experiences of African-American POWs during ... I wrote my senior thesis in undergrad on a prison in the Confederacy called Andersonville Prison — if anybody’s heard of a ...