Depictions in Popular Culture
- Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Andersonville prison. It was originally published in 1955 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year.
- The 1959 play The Andersonville Trial (presented on PBS in 1971) depicts the 1865 trial of Andersonville commandant Henry Wirz.
- The TV series Hell on Wheels incorporates Andersonville into the back story of the character Thor 'The Swede' Gundersen.
- The 1996 TV Movie Andersonville directed by John Frankenheimer, tells the story of the notorious Confederate prison camp.
- The 2012 music video for the song Beacon Sun, by the band Quiet Hounds, is an ode to the lost souls at Andersonville.
- Escape from Andersonville: A Novel of the Civil War. Macmillan. 2008. p. 352. ISBN 0-312-36373-7. http://books.google.com/books/about/Escape_from_Andersonville.html?id=STI62hb9FVkC. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
- The 2009 historical novel by Max R. Terman, Hiram's Honor: Reliving Private Terman's Civil War (Hillsboro, KS: TESA Books, ISBN 0-615-27812-4).
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