Andersonville Prison, Georgia. View from the main gate Issuing rations to thirty-three thousand prisoners Photographed by A.J. Riddle

Photograph shows prisoners gathered for rations distribution in front of Confederate sutlers building and stockade in the distance (Source: Notes by Sergeant Warren L. Goss of Co. H, 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Regiment, prisoner who aided the photographer at Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Goss, Warren (fl. ca. 1864-1880). Descriptions of A. J. Riddle's photographs).

Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073)

Purchased from: The Horse Soldier, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 2017.

Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).

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