Andersonville National Historic Site
The Civil War era Andersonville prison was the stuff of nightmares: 13,000 Union prisoners held captive by the Confederacy in this facility in southwest Georgia died from malnutrition, disease and exposure between 1864 and 1865, when the war ended.
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Andersonville National Historic Site Details
The Civil War era Andersonville prison was the stuff of nightmares: 13,000 Union prisoners held captive by the Confederacy in this facility in southwest Georgia died from malnutrition, disease and exposure between 1864 and 1865, when the war ended. Housing as many as 32,000 prisoners at once, Andersonville (officially Camp Sumter) saw as many as 100 men die each day inside its stockaded walls, included soldiers shot by guards for crossing the "dead line" near the camp fences. After the war, the commander of the camp was tried by the Union and hung for war crimes. Visitors to Andersonville National Historic Site can see a reconstruction of the stockade wall and tour a museum with exhibits on conditions at the camp as well as the postwar trials it spurred. The 526-acre park also is home to a national cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum, detailing the experiences of U.S. captives from the Revolutionary War to the Bataan Death March in World War II and the Hanoi Hilton of Vietnam.
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