The story of the Andersonville trial and Chipman's role in bringing Wirz to justice inspired the Emmy Award-winning film The Andersonville Trial ( 1970 ), directed by George C. Scott.

Cassidy won the 1964 Tony Award for best featured actor in a musical for his role in She Loves Me and was nominated for two Emmy Awards: in 1968 for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Comedy, for He & She, and 1971 for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for the film The Andersonville Trial ( 1970 ).

* Andersonville ( novel ), Pulitzer Prize winning 1956 novel by MacKinlay Kantor

Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star ( 1999 ), a sea adventure of the 19th century, Justice for None ( 2004 ), a Depression-era tale of murder, and Escape from Andersonville ( 2008 ) about a prison escape during the Civil War.

The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Camp Sumter ( also known as Andersonville Prison ), a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War.

Andersonville ( 1996 ) and The Andersonville Trial ( 1970 ), both TV movies, dealt with the conditions at Andersonville Prison and its aftermath.

The director also helmed two films for Turner Network Television in 1996 and 1997, Andersonville and George Wallace, that were highly praised.

* Andersonville ( TNT 1996 )

* Andersonville ( 1996 )-Thomas Sweet

* Andersonville ( 1996 ) as Samson

* Andersonville ( 1996 ) as Tyce

* Andersonville ( 1996 )

This was based on the military trial of the commandant of the infamous Civil War prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia.

Captured by Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby's men at Culpeper, Virginia on June 24, 1864, Corbett was held prisoner at Andersonville prison for five months, when he was exchanged.

Union Army soldier on his release from Andersonville prison in May, 1865.

He was on Broadway the following year, winning critical acclaim for his portrayal of the prosecutor in The Andersonville Trial by Saul Levitt.

The Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ) brought one of Georgia's most notable and notorious landmarks to the area, when a small village named Andersonville, nine miles ( 14 km ) north of Americus on the county's northern edge, was selected by Confederate authorities as the site for a prisoner of war camp.

* Camp Tanasi is on Norris Lake near Andersonville

* Wood, Peter H. " Winslow Homer and the American Civil War " A lecture on Homer's painting " Near Andersonville " and his relationship to the Civil War.

For six months he was held at the Confederate prisons of Andersonville, Georgia, Charleston, South Carolina, Macon, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina, where on November 29, 1864, like his predecessor, Hazen S. Pingree, Bliss escaped from a Confederate prison.

" Swedish influence is evident in Andersonville on the far north side.

He was then taken to Andersonville prison and, while General Sherman was on his march to the sea, he was taken to Millen, Georgia, where he later escaped by pretending to be someone else during a roll call for a prisoner exchange in November 1864.

When World War II erupted he fought for approximately a year on the Ohio and Virginia fronts, was shot down over Virginia, and sent to Andersonville, Georgia as a POW.

* Andersonville, Georgia, United States, site of American Civil War POW camp

** Andersonville National Historic Site, Confederate POW prison camp in Georgia holding Union POWs

Thomas Eston Hemings enlisted in the United States Colored Troops ( USCT ); captured, he spent time at the Andersonville POW camp and died in a POW camp in Meridian, Mississippi.

The prison population at the Andersonville Confederate POW camp alone reached 45, 000 men by the war's end.

Prisoner of War cover to prisoner detained at Andersonville National Historic Site | Andersonville POW camp in Georgia.

Bird's eye view of the Andersonville POW camp.

The most notorious was the Confederate POW camp at Andersonville.

* Andersonville – Andersonville, Georgia ( also has National POW Museum )

Jonathan Moss spends most of the book as a frustrated POW held at Andersonville, Georgia, under conditions unpleasant but far more tolerable than of the infamous Civil War POW camp of the same location.

The United States, however, provided more amenities, such as wireless sets, to Confederate prisoners than the minimal amenities provided in Confederate POW camps such as Andersonville, Georgia.

During the American Civil War, it was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp which is now Andersonville National Historic Site.

This first statement of the previously uncodified rules and articles of war led to the first prosecution for war crimes — in the case of United States prisoners of war held in cruel and depraved conditions at Andersonville, Georgia, in which the Confederate commandant of that camp was tried and hanged, the only Confederate soldier to be punished by death in the aftermath of the entire Civil War.

* 1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.

* November 10 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier to be executed for war crimes.

He participated in the military commission trial of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, as well as the court-martial of Henry Wirz, the commandant in charge of the South's Andersonville prison camp.

Only one person — Captain Henry Wirz, the commandant of the prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia — was executed for war crimes.

" After describing his months as a prisoner of war of the Confederacy, the author recounts the imprisonment and trial of Major Henry Wirz, CSA, commandant of the prison camp operated at Andersonville, Ga. during the American Civil War.

Chipman successfully prosecuted Captain Henry Wirz, the commander of the Confederacy's infamous Andersonville prison camp, where almost 13, 000 Union soldiers lost their lives.

Four months later he photographed the execution of Henry Wirz, commanding officer at the infamous Andersonville Prisoner of War camp in Georgia.