The Voices: A Library Lecture Series committee is pleased to present “Hearing Lost Voices: Finding and Sharing Individual Stories of Sacrifice at Andersonville Prison” with Christopher Barr on Wednesday, Nov. 13 from 6 to 6:50 p.m. in the BTC Auditorium. This presentation is the keynote address for the opening of the third annual “‘Pride of Our Nation…’Pride of Our College” exhibition in the Marvin Library Learning Commons.
The Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Andersonville, Georgia, operated between 1864 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. At its peak, the prison held 32,000 Union soldiers in a camp designed for 10,000 prisoners. Nearly 13,000 died and were buried in a cemetery just outside the prison walls, many in unmarked or mismarked graves.
Christopher Barr, museum interpreter at the Andersonville National Historic Site, discusses the process used to research and identify lost soldiers and their forgotten stories. Barr shares the research on Union prisoners from New York State, including Tom Curry, a member the 83rd New York Infantry, Company D and an ancestor of a Hudson Valley Community College student.
Mr. Barr’s presentation will be video streamed at https://new.livestream.com/hvccstreaming/voices.
Published: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:41:47 +0000 by r.matthews