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Andersonville prison is one element of the Civil War history that slipped through the cracks of my formal education. I hadnt heard of it until a high school student needed help finding books about it for a history project. At first I was confused, thinking that it was somehow connected to the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago. Actually, it was a prison in Georgia where Union captives were held by the Confederacy from February 1864 to the end of the Civil War.By all accounts, Andersonville was truly horrible. It was built partially on wetlands and while originally intended to hold 10,000 prisoners at a time, the population swelled to more than 30,000. 13,000 prisoners would die.Not being familiar with the prison other than from reading this book, I cant speak to its veracity. I can say that its derived from a variety of well-documented sources including the diaries and memoirs of inmates, accounts that were published in local and national newspapers and magazines of the time, and records of the U.S. War Department. Gourley also presents a balanced view of what went on within the prison - for instance, the infamous killing of a crippled inmate is presented from several conflicting points of view. She also compares it to the harsh conditions in prisons for confederate soldiers like Elmira (also known as Hellmira).The writing is very engaging and the layout and design make it very easy to follow. Page and chapter breaks and even the placement of shaded text boxes preserve the narrative flow. I even like the old-school font and subtle color scheme (deep blue, black, white and shades of gray).The many illustrations and photographs are both relevant to the story and well-captioned. Illustrations that appeared in local newspapers, for instance, include source and helpful contextual information. A couple of amazing drawings of the prison were actually drawn by inmates in their diaries.The index at the end is very useful, as are the selected bibliography and further reading. I like the cast of characters at the beginning and end, however I felt that some people were left out who maybe should have been included, and the inclusion of others left me wondering why they hadnt been mentioned more in the text. The source notes are useful, however I found that I needed the reference the bibliography to decipher some of the source abbreviations. Also, the reader has to assume that the number before each note is the page number. It would have been nice if page had been typed at the top of the first number column, just for clarification. It appears that at one point, each note had been assigned a unique number, because I discovered two inexplicable superscript numbers while reading the text (the first one is 76). Apparently, someone decided not to number the notes after theyd already been numbered, and deleted all of the numbers except for two.One other complaint is the occasional use of parentheses to explain certain terms that someone (author? editor?) felt young adults would not understand. Some of these parenthetical definitions may be useful, but others are just annoyingly condescending - for instance, I cant imagine anyone over the age of 5 not knowing that the eagle is a national symbol. Overall, I felt they detracted from the book, but not enough to ruin it.
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