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A list of the Union soldiers buried at Andersonville

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Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Subject:
Literacy and Language Arts,Social Studies
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This document could be used in support of activities which align to the common core standards for ELA/social studies.

Published in 1866, this report provides a list of the dead at Andersonville, taken from Dorence Atwater's secret copy of the official Confederate records. 

Dorence Atwater, a prisoner held at Andersonville for eleven months, spent much of his time held at the prison as a paroled prisoner, working in the hospital office as a clerk. It was in this capacity that he made a secret copy of the death register. He and Clara Barton accompanied the Army expedition to Andersonville in the summer of 1865.

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http://archive.org/details/listofunionsoldi00atwa
PUBLISHER:
New York, Tribune association
PUBLISHED DATE:
1866
TYPE:
Report or Paper

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