Who was Andrew Jackson Riddle?
He was a Civil War photographer probably best known for his pictures of Andersonville Prison in Georgia.
In the early 1850s, he moved to Columbus, Georgia, and opened a photography studio and enlisted in the Confederate Army when the war began. He served three years and was captured three times and even spent eight months at Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C..
Two of the three times he was captured, he was carrying photographic supplies from New York to Virginia through enemy lines.
--Old Secesh
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