2022-07 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/15/2022
Large Silk Ribbon, 3-1/2" x 8-1/2", titled "Souvenir Andersonville Prison Park" with a halftone image Providence Spring, Andersonville GA and issued by "Women's Relief Corps". The inscription reads "The prisoner's cry of thirst rang up to heaven, God heard, and with his thunder cleft the earth, and poured His sweetest waters gushing here." Excellent, c 1901. In the summer of 1864, tens of thousands of Union POWs were dying of thirst at the military prison in Andersonville, Georgia. Suddenly, a spring erupted from the ground within the stockade. The POWs credited its appearance to divine intervention, and "Providence Spring" became part of the established lore of the Civil War. The spring was enclosed within a large stone shelter by Union veteran groups in 1901. Fancy marble slabs flanking the spring have grown stained and encrusted by impurities in the water over the years. "The prisoner's cry of thirst rang up to heaven," reads one of several inscriptions. "God heard, and with his thunder cleft the earth, and poured His sweetest waters gushing here."
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