Andersonville, Sumter County, Georgia

site of a Confederate military prison for Federal soldiers during the Civil War. The mortality of this prison was very great, 12,926 soldiers dying there. Henry Wirtz, a Swi adventurer, the superintendent of the prison, was tried, after the war, by a military commi ion and hung for exce ive cruelty, November to, 1865. As to the culpability of the Confederate government, opposite views have been maintained. Andersonville is now the site of a national cemetery for Union soldiers, Andre, John, (1751-1780), acting adjutant-general to Sir Henry Clinton, and the unfortunate victim of Arnold’s treason. After varied experiences in the Revolutionary War he was sent by Clinton to arrange with Benedict Arnold the details of the latter’s projected treachery. The two conferred in secret near Stony Point, on the Hudson, and André started back to New York. When near Tarry town he was stopped by three Americans, searched and delivered to the military authorities. A military court condemned him to death asa spy, and he was hanged at Tappan, acro the river, on October 2, 1780. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, and a monument was many years afterward erected in Tarry town in memory of the affair. The three patriots, Joun Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van Wart, were rewarded by Congre , Andrew, John A. (1818-1867), the famous War Governor of Ma achusetts, had become known as a lawyer and member of the Legislature, when in 1860 he was elected by the Republicans as Governor. His years of office, 1861 to 1866, coincide with the Civil War period, and he was the heart and soul of the patriotic sentiment in the State. His services in equipping and forwarding the militia, in co-operating with other executives, and his advocacy of radical measures in the latter half of the war, entitled him to a conspicuous place in the group of ‘‘ War Governors.’” Andrews, K. Benjamin, born in 1844, became president of Brown University in 1889. He was a U. S. Commi ioner to the International Monetary Conference at Bru els in 1892. He wrote ‘Institutes of General History,” ‘‘ Institutes of Constitutional History,” and ‘‘ Insti- _ tutes of Economy.’’ He was elected superintendent of schools in Chicago in 1898. 40