Andersonville Timeline 1864

June 1864 Andersonville Prison Time Line

• Friday, June 10, 1864 - hot sun, but very cool, fresh breeze and looks like rain (1 Charles Lepley)
  June 10, 1864 - Records show 20671 Union prisoners at Andersonville. (6)
• Saturday, June 11, 1864 - "More Rain to day...Another excitement about paroling" (1)
• Sunday, June 12, 1864 - cloudy and cool day. "News this morning that our officers are paroled and we are to follow." (1)
• Monday, June 13, 1864 - Clouds all day with just one glimpse of the sun. Very cold with mist. No roll call. (1)
• Tuesday, June 14, 1864 - Lepley reports it was still cloudy and cold. There was a light mist and no sunshine. He mentioned that fresh vegetables were for sale to the prisoners that day for $1.00 pr quart for new potatoes. For 50 cents one could get a cucumber. A dozen beets, a dozen raddishes or a dozen onions sold for a dollar. (1)
• Wednesday, June 15, 1864 - Another day of rain (1)
  June 15, 1864 - Prisoner numbers had increased to 21714. (6)

July 1864 Andersonville Prison Time Line

Activities, weather, events in the prison

• July 7, 1864 - Prisoner Albert H. Shatzel dug a well which produced water that was at times fresh and other times backish. The only other water available was the polluted creek running through the prison that was the cause of much disease in the Andersonville. (3)
• Sunday, July 31, 1864 - A cloudy day with a shower in the evening. (1)
  July 31, 1864 - There were 31,675 prisoners at Andersonville. (6)

August 1864 Andersonville Prison Time Line

• Monday, August 1, 1864 - Lepley wrote in his diary: "Cloudy and Cool with a little Rain Nights pretty warm" (1)
  August 1, 1864 Prisoner population reaches 30,000 and still increasing. (5)
• August 9, 1864 - A flood washed out part of the stockade (4)
• August 12, 1864 - almost 33,000 Union soldiers in Andersonville, the most it ever held. 682 men died that week. (4)
• August 16, 1864 - Photographer Riddle took photos of the prison and prisoners. "blazingly hot day" (4)
• Saturday, August 27, 1864 - Lepley writes that it was a clear, warm day. Much talk of exchange. They received 1/2 ration of corn bread, 1/2 ration of cooked rice and 1/3 ration of raw beef. (1)

September 1864 Andersonville Prison Time Line

• September 1, 1864 - Records show Andersonville Prison's population was 31,578. (6)
  Charles Lepley wrote in his diary that it was a clear day, but colder than usual for the date. It was hard to sleep the previous night because of the mosquitoes. "A Sargeant of Detachment killed a man on the North side by stabbing him last evening." The rations of cooked rice & beef was distributed in in the forenoon, half of each. Then the prisoners received half a ration of corn bread with some pork. (1)
• September 2, 1864 - Charles Lepley in his diary notes that "some of the Colored Soldiers" were removed that evening. The rumor was that they were former slaves. The rations that evening were 1 ration of cooked beef, half ration of cooked beans, and a half ration of cooked corn bread. (1)
• In mid-September, there was an order to take 11,000 prisoners from Andersonville to Florence, South Carolina. They were crowded onto freight cars for the journey. (2 - David S. Whitenack)
• September 13, 1864 - One trainload of prisoners derailed not far from Andersonville. They were being transferred to another prison (William Marvel)
• September 1864 - The average deaths in September were 80 to 100 men a day. The able bodied prisoners had been moved, leaving no comrades to tend the sicker ones. (William Marvel)
• September 17, 1864 - Prison population reduced to less than 9,000 and 2,000 were in the prison hospital. (William Marvel)

October 1864 Andersonville Prison Time Line

• October 1, 1864 - At this time, 4179 prisoners remained in Andersonville. (6)

November 1864 Andersonville Prison Time Line

• November 1, 1864 - The prison contained 4179 soldiers. (6)
• November 12, 1864 - The prison quartermaster received a shipment of supplies for the prisoners. It included almost 400 blankets and a similar number of draws (underwear?), socks and shirts. There were also 60 pairs of shoes. (3)
• November 8, 1864 - Lincoln re-elected for president.
  Abraham Lincoln & Andrew Johnson in 1864 by scenesfromthepast
  

December 1864 Andersonville Prison Time Line

• December 1, 1864 - The prison contained 1301 prisoners at this point. (6)
• December 6, 1864 - My great-great grandfather, Abraham Bates Tower, paroled from Andersonville. He weighed 73 pounds. (his pension application)
  December 6, 1864..... The population of the prison dropped to 1321 prisoners. (6)