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The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Andersonville Prison (also known as Camp Sumter), a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final fourteen months of the American Civil War. Most of the site lies in southwestern Macon County, adjacent to the east side of the town of ...
Andersonville, Georgia, was chosen as a strategic location for the Confederacy's new prison due to its small location and close proximity to fresh water and a railroad. [1] Originally about 16 acres (65,000 m 2 ), the camp was later expanded to 26 acres (110,000 m 2 ).
Andersonville is a city in Sumter County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 237. It is located in the southwest part of the state, approximately 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Macon on the Central of Georgia railroad .
During a period of 14 months in Camp Sumter, located near Andersonville, Georgia, 13,000 (28%) of the 45,000 Union soldiers confined there died. [12] At Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois, 10% of its Confederate prisoners died during one cold winter month; and Elmira Prison in New York state, with a death rate of 25%, very nearly equaled that of ...
The Tragedy of Andersonville; Trial of Captain Henry Wirz, the Prison Keeper. Sacramento. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Futch, Ovid (1968). History of Andersonville Prison. University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813036915. Harper, Frank Roderick (1986). Andersonville: The Trial of Captain Henry Wirz. University of Northern Colorado.
The state’s only women’s prison, located in Pierre, houses twice the number of inmates it’s designed for, packed into classrooms and a gymnasium. The state currently pays Hughes County to ...
During the American Civil War (1861–65), the small village named Andersonville, 9 mi (14 km) north of Americus on the county's northern edge, was selected by Confederate authorities as the site for a prisoner-of-war camp. The Andersonville prison was built in neighboring Macon County, and became the largest such prison in the South. During ...
See Filming Locations From '1883,' 'Prison Break' and More. Leanne Aciz-Stanton. Updated May 9, 2023 at 2:07 AM. ... The location has gotten the Hollywood treatment twice: ...