Andersonville Prison Painting Analysis

The first shipment of prisoners to reach Andersonville came from Libby Prison in Virginia on February 24, 1864 (Hackmann 1). From that day on, 400 men showed up each day. At the end of June, 26,000 men were held captive, and by August, the total had risen to 33,000, making that the largest population of men held at one time. Originally meant to detain only 10,000 men, a solution needed to be found. (2 “Andersonville” 1) The Confederates made the decision to expand the stockade to twenty-six acres, but that did not help the declining conditions (Hackmann 1). Henry Devillez remembers arriving on June 18, 1864, and states, “. . . we [Naviaux, Devillez, and both Rogier brothers] beheld misery on all sides. Sickness and death by hundreds was the program every day.” Over time the creek banks gave way and resulted in the whole compound becoming a swamp infested with maggots and lice. The pests would

The camp was built by slave labor on 16 acres, later expanded to 26 acres, and was formally called “Camp Sumter” by the Confederacy. Andersonville was designed to imprison up to 10,000 “overflow” prisoners from elsewhere, but its inmate population climbed to 3 times that amount leave to about 33,000 prisoners by the end of the summer of 1864. Furthermore, its physical design was fatally flawed to begin with. In addition to the absence of any system for waste disposal within the camp, a creek flowing through the camp delivered upstream waste from the military camp where Andersonville guards were stationed. By the end of the war, 13,000 Andersonville prisoners (30 percent of the camp’s population) had died from a variety of diseases such as

Although the prison was enlarged, the number of prisoners continued to swell. By August 1864, more than 32,000 prisoners were confined at Andersonville. Also, the lack of shelter from the searing heat and the bitter cold. Historical documents, however, attest to the fact that prison officials attempted to acquire supplies for the prisoners but were severely hampered by the need to use supplies for the military and war effort.

In the painting “Jamestown Lifescape,” Keith Rocco uses vivid details to establish the theme that cooperation is essential to the survival of a successful community. For example, oxen are transporting building materials, such as bricks and roof tiles, to the work sites where the townspeople are building new houses and other structures. The townspeople are willing to share their time and resources to expand and better their community. They can trade their goods for what they both need. For example, the townspeople are trading goods for money to buy extra building supplies. The townsfolk can gather other supplies or more animals to assist and transport the supplies to expand their community faster. They can work together to create a larger

As Richmond was being attacked, a place was needed to store the Union prisoners. Andersonville had accesses to the Georgia Southwestern Railway and portable water from the Sweetwater Creek and wells around the area making it an ideal location. A pine forest surrounded the area providing a good amount of timber as well. (Rice n.d.) According to Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein, the prison began construction in January of 1864 but was being filled with prisoners before it was complete. When the first group of 10,000 prisoners arrived, only half the fence was complete, the cookhouse had barely been started, and no barracks or hospital had been established. The prisoners were supposed to be housed in tents but the governor of Georgia refused to sell them any. (Schroeder-Lein 2008) According to McElroy, who was a survivor of the Andersonville prison camp and wrote of book on his life there, the river that flowed through the camp made the area around in like a bog about a hundred and fifty feet wide that prisoners would sink into leaving even less adequate living space for the prisoners. (McElroy, Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons 1962) The pine forest around the forest was also quickly cut down for construction. This left the prisoners

I would like to thank you for considering to adorn a painting to the Children’s Memorial Hospital. Your donation is very important.I am aware of the tough decision you have to make between choosing which one of your four paintings you should donate to the Family Lounge at Children’s Memorial Hospital. I am also aware that you would want the painting to be an appropriate donation for the families who will be waiting, while a young member undergoes surgery.. I have analyzed each of the four paintings below to figure out which painting is best suitable for the hospital, and to help aid in making your decision easier.

Artwork Example: David Before Saul, folio 24, in the “The Belleville Breviary” (FIG. 13-35, P. 397)

Soldiers in the Army of the Potomac would live and sleep in camps. In the camps they would build small two man tents, they are easily pitched, and log huts that could fit several men. They would use blankets to keep warm at night. Canteens were for them to drink fresh water. Haversacks were what they used to keep their belongings in. They had inadequate food and shelter,

When one turns on the television today they are made witness to all the crimes that are present in society. It is impossible to sit through thirty-five minutes of news without anger and rage becoming aroused. This is because society is bothered by infinitesimal paraphernalia. Society also believes in human rights and punishment for those who violate such rights. Yet what constitutes humanity? Ever sit there and watch the news and wonder just how far humanity reaches? When is it time to say this is a human rights violation? Every wonder when someone’s morals and ethics begin to effect their ability to do their job? Ever wonder why in every news story the “bad guy” always become caught? Ever wonder how many

Try to imagine being alone in the South Carolina woods, a quarter mile away from your home, with just a tent for shelter. You are given limited supplies and receive no food. You meet a family member at certain times during the day at a fence to receive your rations, strikingly similar to the conditions of a war prisoner. Nighttime comes and forked lightening streaks the sky, and soon enough a steady downpour begins and you are forced to huddle inside the tent to escape the thunderstorms. The storms cause a temperature drop and the thin material of the tent does nothing to combat this, and soon you are shivering all over. These were the conditions a teen was found in and had been forced to deal with for two days as punishment for taking a Pop-Tart

The command area surrounded the prisoner camp. Nine guard towers, ditches, tall concrete walls, and electrified barbed wire encircled the whole camp. A maintenance building and living quarters for 200 SS trainees and 200 camp guards were positioned near to the camps

Historian Watson interviewed a survivor of the Walnut Street Jail some years after the War's end. The veteran, Jacob Ritter, recalled that prisoners were fed nothing for days on end and were regularly targets of beatings by the British guards. The prison was freezing as broken window panes allowed snow and cold to be the only blankets available to the captives. Ice, lice, and mice shared the cells. Desperate prisoners dined on grass roots, scraps of leather, and "pieces of a rotten pump." Rats were a delicacy. Upward of a dozen prisoners died daily. They were hauled across the street and slung in unmarked trenches like carcasses from an abattoir.

Before the 1820s, most prisons resembled classrooms where inmates lived in large rooms together like a dormitory. The newer prisons of the era, like New York’s Auburn Prison, shepherded men into individual cells at night and silent labor during the day, a model that would prove enduring. Women at Auburn, however, lived in a small attic room above

The protection provided by slave owners was too stingy. Many slaves lived in small stick houses with dirt floors, not the log slave cabins often depicted in books and movies. These shelters had cracks in the walls that let in cold and wind, and had only thin coverings over the windowpanes. Again, slave owners supplied only the minimum required for survival; they were mainly concerned with

Art murals are displayed on walls of Schools,Libraries,Churches,Museums and more. Art murals are publicized to inspire people , or to influence or represent a cause.The art mural here at IRHS was painted to inspire children,show them famous art pieces and to represent the art hallway as the art hallway. The mural contains the famous paintings water lilies,starry night,the persistence of memory, guernica and ends with a self portrait of frida Kahlo. Senior April Sedano, who has been in 2D art for 3 years said, “we wanted to livin up the art hallway ,so we thought about the most inspirational artist...so it's something people would recognize”.