![]() While clearly based on prisoner memoirs, most notably Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy, it is less nakedly biased against the Confederates than its sources. Other characters include numerous ordinary prisoners of war, the camp physician/doctor, a nearby plantation owner, guards and Confederate civilians in the area near the prison. The "Raiders" are a gang of thugs, mainly bounty jumpers who steal from their fellow prisoners and lead comfortable lives while other prisoners die of starvation and disease. It also features William Collins, a Union soldier and one of the leaders of the "Raiders". It is told from many points of view, including that of Henry Wirz, the camp commandant, who was later executed. ![]() The novel interweaves the stories of real and fictional characters. ![]() The novel was originally published in 1955 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp, Andersonville prison, during the American Civil War (1861–1865). ![]()
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