![]() ![]() ![]() Kantor's novel was not the basis for a 1996 John Frankenheimer film Andersonville. ![]() Henry Wirz, who received an injury earlier in the war and never recovered properly, is portrayed not as an inhuman fiend but as a sick man struggling with a job beyond his capacities. ![]() Other characters include numerous ordinary prisoners of war, the camp physician/doctor, a nearby plantation owner, guards and Confederate civilians in the area near the prison.Īndersonville is clearly based on prisoner memoirs, most notably Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy. The "Raiders" are a gang of thugs, mainly bounty jumpers who steal from their fellow prisoners and lead comfortable lives while other prisoners die of starvation and disease. It also features William Collins, a Union soldier and one of the leaders of the "Raiders". It is told from many points of view, including that of Henry Wirz, the camp commandant, who was later executed. The novel interweaves the stories of real and fictional characters. The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville prison during the American Civil War (1861–1865). ![]()
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