After Andersonville
Andersonville Prison no longer existed after the Confederates lost the war in April 1865. Most prisoners returned to the civilian occupations they had before the war, but some were still kept in Federal service.
"I have read in my earlier years about prisoners in the revolutionary war, and other wars. It sounded noble and heroic to be a prisoner of war, and accounts of their adventures were quite romantic; but the romance has been knocked out of the prisoner of war business, higher than a kite. It's a fraud." -John L. Ransom |