The Wilkes-Barre Record newspaper on Oct. 16, 1903, published a lengthy two-page story about eight men from Wilkes-Barre, describing their horrific experiences as war prisoners at the Confederate prison camp Andersonsville in Georgia during the Civil War.

Conditions at Andersonville were so brutal that the Confederate commander of the prison, Henry Wirz, was convicted by court-martial and executed by hanging after the Civil War ended.

The Record headline, “Local Heroes of Andersonville,” and the story provided first-hand experiences by the eight Union Army soldiers from Wilkes-Barre.

Charles Klein

Charles Klein, an ex-constable, lived on Darling Street and spent six months at Andersonville, having enlisted at 19 in Wilkes-Barre in 1864. Klein told the Record reporter he was part of a c

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