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Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville: Essays on the Secret Social Histories of America's Deadliest Prison. By Robert Scott Davis. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2006. xxii, 310 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-88146-012-4.)
In Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville, Robert Scott Davis, director of the Family and Regional History Program at Wallace State Community College, has written the latest in a long line of studies by numerous scholars on the Confederate stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia. Of all Civil War prisons, Andersonville has received the most attention, and no wonder: The camp had the highest mortality rate of any Civil War prison (around 33 percent) and was viewed as a hell on earth. Shrouded in myth and subjected to conflicting interpretations, Andersonville has become a symbol of the horrors of captivity, leading the National Park Service to establish the National Prisoner of War Museum at the prison site in 1998. . . .
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