A great Civil War relic from the infamous Andersonville prison, a 9 x 7 in. section of wood taken from the stockade gate post and ‘Dead Line’ at Andersonville. The relic bears a tag stating it was presented to John P. Robinson, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic in Perry, New York. In 1890, the Georgia department of the GAR bought the Andersonville prison site with membership and subscription funds to preserve it. In 1910 they donated it to the federal government through which it was purposed into a national military park and cemetery. Housed within a wooden frame with an engraved label that reads 'Andersonville Prison, GA, Sections taken from Stockade Gate Post and Dead Line.' Fine condition. The notorious 'deadline' was a 20-foot-tall wooden fence around the inside of the prison grounds that was deemed a no mans land to keep men away from the main wall. Any prisoner caught crossing or even touching the Dead Line was shot without warning.