Andersonville Prison - Wikipedia
WEBMost of the site lies in southwestern Macon County, adjacent to the east side of the town of Andersonville. The site also contains the Andersonville National Cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum. The prison was created in February 1864 and served until April 1865.
Andersonville - Prison, Location & Civil War | HISTORY
WEBNov 9, 2009 · Updated: June 10, 2019 | Original: November 9, 2009. copy page link. Print Page. Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images. From February 1864 until the end of the American Civil War...
History of the Andersonville Prison - Andersonville National ...
WEBHistory of the Andersonville Prison. Plan of prison grounds, 1865. NPS/Andersonville National Historic Site. Commonly known as Andersonville, the military prison facility was officially named Camp Sumter, in honor of the county in which it was located.
Andersonville National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
WEBMar 1, 2024 · Their burial grounds became Andersonville National Cemetery, where veterans continue to be buried today. This place, where tens of thousands suffered captivity so others could be free, is also home to the National Prisoner of War Museum and serves as a memorial to all American prisoners of war.
Camp Sumter / Andersonville Prison - Andersonville National ...
WEBOct 31, 2019 · The largest and most famous of 150 military prisons of the Civil War, Camp Sumter, commonly known as Andersonville, was the deadliest landscape of the Civil War. Of the 45,000 Union soldiers imprisoned here, nearly 13,000 died. At its most crowded, it held more than 32,000 men, where forced overcrowding compounded problems of …
Andersonville Prison | American Battlefield Trust
WEBAndersonville, or Camp Sumter as it was known officially, held more prisoners at any given time than any of the other Confederate military prisons. It was built in early 1864 after Confederate officials decided to move the large number of Federal prisoners in and around Richmond to a place of greater security and more abundant food.
Andersonville Prison - New Georgia Encyclopedia
WEBJan 22, 2003 · Andersonville Prison. Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries. Andersonville had the highest mortality rate of any Civil War prison. Nearly 13,000 of the 45,000 men who entered the stockade died there, chiefly of malnutrition.
Andersonville | Georgia Civil War Prison, History & Tourist ...
WEBAndersonville, village in Sumter county, southwest-central Georgia, U.S., that was the site of a Confederate military prison from February 1864 until May 1865 during the American Civil War. Andersonville—formally, Camp Sumter—was the South’s largest prison for captured Union soldiers and was.
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