The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals.
Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ed.

Andersonville, August 17, 1864.

The taking of these remarkable photographs was witnessed by C. W. Reynolds, Ninety-second Illinois Infantry. Describing himself as a former ‘star boarder at Andersonville,’ he writes to the editors of this History: ‘I was a prisoner of war in that place during the whole summer of 1864, and I well remember seeing a photographer with his camera in one of the sentinel-boxes near the south gate during July or August, trying to take a picture of the interior of the prison. I have often wondered in later years what success this photographer had and why the public had never had an opportunity to see a genuine photograph of Andersonville Prison.’

Andersonville exactly as it looked from the stockade, August 17, 1864

Andersonville exactly as it looked from the stockade, August 17, 1864