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LL/105602
A.J. Riddle
1864, 17 August
Andersonville Prison, Georgia. South end view of the stockade Showing the sentry stands in the distance

Salted paper print
9 x 13 cm (sheet) 18 x 23 (mount)
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Liljenquist Family collection, Call Number/Physical Location: PH - Riddle, no. 1 (AA size) [P&P], Library of Congress Control Number: 2017650849, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-53821 (digital file from original)
 
Photograph shows prisoners using latrines in the foreground, masses of huts made of sticks and blankets, and a stockade with sentry boxes in the distance (Source: Notes by Sergeant Warren L. Goss of Co. H, 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Regiment, prisoner who aided the photographer at Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Goss, Warren (fl. ca. 1864-1880). Descriptions of A. J. Riddle's photographs).
 
LL/105602


 

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