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Andersonville National Cemetery, June 2011. The cemetery is the final resting place for the Union prisoners who died while being held at Camp Sumter/Andersonville as POWs. The prisoners' burial ground at Camp Sumter has been made a national cemetery. It contains 13,714 graves, of which 921 are marked "unknown". [43]
Basket Creek Cemetery Lott Cemetery. Andersonville National Historic Site; Basket Creek Cemetery; Behavior Cemetery; Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, made famous by the Bird Girl sculpture featured on the cover of the book, and in the movie of, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Andersonville National Historic Site at NPS.gov – official site "Andersonville: Prisoner of War Camp", a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan; U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: American Civil War prison camps "WWW Guide to Civil War Prisons" (2004) Archived 2010-06-27 at the Wayback ...
[2] Name on the Register Image Date listed [3] Location City or town Description 1: Americus Historic District: Americus Historic District: January 1, 1976 (Irregular pattern along Lee St. with extensions to Dudley St., railroad tracks, Rees Park, and Glessner St.; also E. Church St. and Oak Grove Cemetery
Today, the Andersonville National Historic Site serves as a memorial to all American prisoners of war throughout the nation's history. The 495-acre (2.00 km 2) park lies in both Macon and Sumter Counties and consists of the historic prison site and the National Cemetery, which originally was reserved for the Union dead.
WHAT: Remembrance: Reading of the Names will honor the lives of 1,630 Black people buried in unmarked graves WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 24, 2 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Louis Cemetery, 1167 Barret Ave.
Andersonville Prison; Antietam National Cemetery; B. Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery; Bethesda Presbyterian Church (Russellville, Tennessee) C.
Andersonville was a town in Anderson County, South Carolina, that was settled around 1800. It was named for Robert Anderson , who was a Revolutionary War veteran. Although it had been a thriving textile and trading community, it suffered from repeated floods and was bypassed by the railroad.