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Please join Mandarin Museum & Historical Society for our October Third Thursday Lecture featuring Dr. Guy Prentice, retired National Park Service Archaeologist, Southeast Archeological Center, Tallahassee.Date: Thursday, October 17, 2024
Time: Refreshments at 6:30 pm, Presentation at 7:00 pm
Location: Mandarin Community Club, 12447 Mandarin Rd.
Admission: Free
Dr. Prentice's presentation is titled Andersonville Revisited: An Archeological and Historical Study of the Civil War's Most Infamous Prison Camp
Andersonville was viewed by the victorious Northern States as the scene of some of the worst atrocities suffered by prisoners during the American Civil War. Nearly one in three of the roughly 45,000 Union prisoners who passed through its gates died of malnutrition, exposure, disease, and the inhumanity of desperate men. After the war ended, the commandant of the prison camp, Capt. Henry Wirz, was tried, convicted and executed for the sufferings that the Union prisoners experienced, though many view him as a scapegoat who was wrongly blamed for the staggering number of Union prisoners that died at Andersonville from causes outside his control.
This lecture highlights the discoveries and findings of 50 years of archeology and recent historical research conducted by the speaker and includes data on the techniques used in the original construction of the prison stockade built by enslaved workers, the extension of the prison enclosure built by imprisoned Union soldiers, an attempted prisoner escape tunnel that failed before completion, and some of the crude shanties that were built by the prisoners for shelter. It also corrects some of the erroneous “facts” that have been repeated about Andersonville by prison camp survivors and modern historians striving to explain what was experienced by both Union prisoners and their Confederate captors during the 14 months that Andersonville prison camp was occupied.
More than a few men from the 112th New York, 169th New York, and 13th Indiana Volunteer Infantries were captured and imprisoned at Andersonville in the months following the loss of their gear and possessions with the sinking of the Maple Leaf in Mandarin.
Thank you to our generous sponsor, Endless Summer Roofing Co., for making our Fall 2024 Third Thursday Lecture Series possible.
Mandarin Museum's Third Thursday Lecture Series is hosted in partnership with Mandarin Community Club.
Mandarin Museum is supported, in part, through a grant from the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville and the City of Jacksonville.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
12447 Mandarin Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32223-1816, United States, 12447 Mandarin Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32223-1816, United States,Jacksonville, Florida, Orange Park
