Marvel is the newest and best book on Andersonville. A man named Fitch wrote a small book on Andersonville a few years back that is also good. In addition, William B. Hesseltine wrote _Civil War Prisons: A Study in War Psychology_ back in the thirties which is still the best book on the PW system, both North and South. It is available in a new hardback printing for $29.95. Hesseltine also edited a special issue of _Civil War History_, which is a quarterly scholarly magazine. That is separately available for $10. It consist of a half dozen articles on various specific prisons. You can get both from Morningside Books (800-648-9710). Finally, Marvel has some warnings about published prison diaries. While no CW prison was a country club, and Andersonville was *very* bad, take *any* of the diaries with a grain of salt: the men who published them were trying to get pensions and much of the detail is flat out incorrect! As a check, do you really think guys sat around writing daily diary entries while they were starving at Andersonville? Bob -- Bob Huddleston Metro Brokers Adco Associates Office: (303) 457-9300 Toll Free: (888) 451-6376 E-Mail: adco@rmi.net Maureen Johnson wrote: > William Marvel wrote a book called +ACI-Andersonville, The Last Depot+ACI- he used > extracts from my great grandfather's dairy that were sent to the park by an > aunt many years ago. My brother saw the bibliography when he read the > book. My understanding from the information they sent me about my great > grandfather is that there are copies of some of these diaries on sale at the > park. Perhaps if you wrote them they could verify and tell you how to get > them. The address I have is: > > Friends of the Park > Box 186 > Andersonville, Georgia 31711 > > Maureen