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On 12 July 2021, it was proposed that this article be moved from Andersonville National Historic Site to Andersonville Prison. The result of the discussion was moved.

Requested move 12 July 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lennart97 (talk) 17:06, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Andersonville National Historic Site → Andersonville Prison – This article is primarily about the prison, and secondarily about the National Historic Site. Ideally there would be another article about the latter, but in the meantime the title of this article should reflect its main topic. Short discussion along these lines occurred back in 2008 here. –CWenger (^ • @) 16:43, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Rublov (talk) 21:24, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I've thought this myself. Herostratus (talk) 02:36, 13 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. I don't think there needs to be a separate article for the site. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:23, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

John McElroy

It should be added that another personal, first-hand account of a Union POW by the name of John McElroy (Private, Company L, 16th Illinois Cavalry) wrote a book of his time in Andersonville. It's titled "This Was Andersonville" and it was edited by Roy Meredith. Copyright 1957. Jmiddl12 (talk) 23:41, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

prisoner image

The Library of Congress description for this image says "Erroneous caption on card: "Returned Federal prisoners from Andersonville prison."" LoC identifies the prisoner as having come from the prison at Belle Isle (Richmond, Virginia). I have therefore updated the description and renamed it on Commons, and removed it from this article. It's an important historical image but apparently not related to this specific topic. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:55, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Depiction in popular culture addition

Macho Callahan movie (1970) - he breaks out of a Confederate military prison (Andersonville), intent on revenge against the man who conscripted him into the army - www.imdb.com/title/tt0066033/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.16.72.221 (talk) 19:42, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]