A.J. Riddle
1864, 17 August
Andersonville Prison, Georgia. South-west view of the stockade Showing the dead line

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. 7 (AA size) [P&P], Digital Id: ppmsca 53840 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.53840, ppmsca 53841 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.53841, Library of Congress Control Number: 2017650869
 
Photograph shows group of huts in an area referred to as "Mud Island" next to "dead-line" where prisoners would be shot if they entered it; in the middle group stands a man wearing only a shirt, common attire for elderly prisoners (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).
 
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