Andersonville Raiders: Yankee Versus Yankee in the Civil War’s Most Notorious Prison Camp (Gary Morgan - UA) Section-Gettysburg Monuments By: Harold Holzer

By: Harold Holzer

For nearly a century his military and political career remained deeply misunderstood

He rode on the back of an ATV with his “psychotic connection” in Mississippi

As tensions erupted into conflict in 1861

Northern and Southern

Andersonville Raiders: Yankee Versus Yankee in the Civil War’s Most Notorious Prison Camp (Gary Morgan - UA) Section-Gettysburg Monuments By: Harold Holzerby Gary Morgan On the evening of July 11, 1864, six men were marched into Andersonville Prison, surrounded by a cordon of guards, the prison commandant, and a Roman Catholic priest. The six men were handed over to a small execution squad, and while more than 26,000 Union prisoners looked on, the six were executed by hanging. The six, part of a larger group known as the Raiders, were killed, not by their Rebel enemies but by their fellow prisoners, for