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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Andersonville Prison
		February 1864, during the Civil War (1861-65), a Confederate prison was established in Macon County, in southwest Georgia, to provide relief for the large number of Union prisoners concentrated in and around Richmond, Virginia.
		In the decades following the war Andersonville's notoriety was fueled by memoirs written by former prisoners, many of whom were inspired by public interest in the prison and by efforts to lobby Congress for special veterans' benefits for POWs.
		A project of the Georgia Humanities Council, in partnership with the University of Georgia Press, the University System of Georgia/GALILEO, the Office of the Governor, and the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?path=/HistoryArchaeology/CivilWarandReconstruction/Places-12&id=h-789 (1575 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Civil War Prisons
		Georgia was relatively distant from the battle lines for most of the war, which made it prime ground for incarcerating captured Union soldiers.
		One of the first prisons to hold Union soldiers in Georgia was the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta.
		Because of overcrowding caused by the influx of Andersonville prisoners in September, a second Savannah prison, for officers, was set up on land adjacent to the city jail.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3182 (1306 words)

	NPCA \| Andersonville National Historic Site
		Andersonville National Historic Site, officially known as Camp Sumter during the American Civil War, held captive more than 45,000 prisoners of war and was one of the largest and most notorious Confederate military prisons.
		The museum opened at Andersonville in 1998, and it is dedicated to all brave men and women of the United States who have suffered captivity.
		The importance of Andersonville in today's global context inspired the National Parks Conservation Association's State of the Parks program to complete an assessment of the condition of park's resources and the staff's ability to care for and share these resources with the public.
	www.npca.org /stateoftheparks/andersonville (317 words)

	Sherpa Guides \| Georgia \| Civil War \| Andersonville and Americus Area
		Andersonville is a must-see for anyone interested in the Civil War.
		The town of Andersonville proudly calls itself a Civil War village, and features museums and shops worth a look, as well as the Wirz Monument, erected to the memory of Henry Wirz, the commandant of the prison camp at Andersonville.
		At Andersonville National Historic Site, living history events include Andersonville Revisited on the last weekend in February and on the first weekend in October, a recreation of the Union Occupation of Camp Sumter.
	www.sherpaguides.com /georgia/civil_war/midwest/andersonville_and_americus_area.html (1082 words)

	Archaeology at the Andersonville Civil War Prison Camp, Southeast Archaeological Center
		Andersonville is located in south-central Georgia, near the towns of Americus and Plains.
		Just as Andersonville and the story of POWs is of great interest for historical research, the issue of fair and ethical treatment of POWs continues to be an issue around the world today.
		In fact, it was Andersonville and the public interest associated with it that led to world-wide concerns and eventually to the Geneva Convention on treatment of prisoners-of-war.
	www.cr.nps.gov /seac/andearch.htm (291 words)

	Andersonville / Wirz Collection, 1864-65
		In 1864-65 Wirz was commander of the stockade (or prison interior) at the Confederate prisoner of war camp at Andersonville, Sumter County, Georgia.
		Long before the end of the war sensational accounts of the horrors of Andersonville began to appear in the Northern press, sparking the popular conviction that the Southern government was deliberately and systematically mistreating Union prisoners.
		Wirz was brought to trial because Northern outrage over the prison issue demanded a scapegoat, and because as commander of the stockade he was well known to the prisoners and figured prominently in their recollections.
	www.rarebooks.nd.edu /digital/civil_war/topical_collections/andersonville/index.shtml (1706 words)

	27th Iowa Volunteer Infantry
		The following report of Captain James M. Moore, assistant quartermaster United states Army, upon the cemetery at Andersonville, Georgia, with the names of the martyrs there interred, is published by authority of the Secretary of War for the information of their comrades and friends.
		Andersonville is situated on the Southwestern railroad, sixty miles from Macon.
		The country is covered mostly with pines and hemlocks, and the soil is sandy, sterile, and unfit for cultivation, and unlike the section of country a few miles north and south of this place, were the soil is well adapted to agricultural purposes, and cotton as well as corn are extensively raised.
	homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com /~27thiowa/honor/andersonville.htm (1337 words)

	Andersonville prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Howell Cobb, a former Governor of Georgia, suggested the interior of that state as a possible location for one of these new camps, as it was thought to be quite far from the front lines, and would be relatively immune to Federal cavalry raids.
		Because of the scarce resources of the Confederacy, Andersonville prison was frequently short of food, and even when this was sufficient in quantity, it was of a poor quality and poorly prepared on account of the lack of cooking utensils.
		The revelation of the sufferings of the prisoners was one of the factors that shaped public opinion regarding the South in the Northern states, after the close of the Civil War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andersonville_prison (623 words)

	Andersonville Part III
		In about ten days thereafter my regiment, 1st Georgia Reserves, composed of young boys and old men, (I was not sixteen) just organized, were sent to take the place of the 26th Alabama and 55th Georgia, so they could be sent to the front for duty.
		In a few days after our arrival the 2d, 3d and 4th Georgia Reserves, all composed of lads and hoary-headed men, for we were reduced to the strait of "robbing the cradle and the grave for men to make soldiers," joined us rapidly as they could be organized.
		No Andersonville prisoner, unless he were lost to all sense of honor and shame, could make such a statement as that the rations were no more than the specimens shown.
	www.rebelgray.com /andersonville3.htm (2720 words)

	CHS: Civil War Monuments of Connecticut:
		ANDERSONVILLE BOY, State Capitol Grounds, Hartford, is significant historically because it memorializes the many Connecticut prisoners of war who suffered and died at the Andersonville, Georgia, prison/hospital.
		ANDERSONVILLE MEMORIAL GUN, Norwich, was an early (1866) recognition of the suffering and loss that occurred at the prison.
		ANDERSONVILLE BOY is a bronze figure of a soldier, without accoutrements or weapons, which stands on a pink granite pedestal.
	www.chs.org /ransom/046.htm (738 words)

	Andersonville Civil War Prison
		Andersonville Civil War Prison, located in the village of Andersonville, Sumpter County, Georgia, became notorious for its overcrowding, starvation, disease, and cruelty.
		Andersonville Prison was established as a "stockade for Union enlisted men".
		Andersonville Prison was investigated by the Confederate War Department and they recommended that the majority of the prisoners be transferred to Florence, SC and Millen, GA. This mere fact would attest to the horrors suffered by prisoners at Andersonville.
	www.censusdiggins.com /prison_andersonville.html (650 words)

	The Real Georgia - Attractions
		Andersonville National Historic Site is the only park in the National Park System to serve as a memorial to all American prisoners of war throughout the nation's history.
		Andersonville served as the supply center for the Confederate prison.
		Housed in a renovated 1920’s cotton warehouse are the largest, oldest, and rarest examples of tele-communication in the world dating from 1876 to the present; such as the early liquid transmitter from 1876, the first carrier to transmit speech, and a model of Alexander Graham Bell’s workshop.
	www.therealgeorgia.com /attractions.html (1052 words)

	Georgia - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Andersonville Prison, military stockade of the Confederate army during the American Civil War, near Andersonville, Georgia, used to confine captured Union army enlisted men.
		A total of 49,485 prisoners were detained at Andersonville between February 1864 and April 1865.
		The action of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Andersonville (1955), by the American writer MacKinlay Kantor, is set in the prison.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /georgia_usa.htm (687 words)

	Andersonville, Georgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andersonville is a city in Sumter County, Georgia, United States.
		Andersonville, originally named Anderson, Georgia, was given the name Andersonville by the United States Postal Service to prevent confusion with another city, also named Anderson.
		Andersonville is infamous as an American Civil War Confederate POW camp, Camp Sumter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andersonville,_Georgia (529 words)

	Andersonville National Historic Site, Andersonville, Georgia
		Here, however, the harshness of war is tempered by a landscape of beauty which raises the hope that reason and harmony may still prevail in the affairs of men.
		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.
		The center contains exhibits on Andersonville prison, the national cemetary, Civil War prisons in general, and the systems of exchange and parole used during the war.
	www.inusa.com /tour/ga/albany/anhs.htm (325 words)

	Scopes Trial Home Page - UMKC School of Law
		This was the situation at Andersonville when Captain Henry Wirz arrived to assume command of the prison in April of 1864.
		The population of Andersonville was then the fifth largest of all the cities in the Confederacy.
		The death rate at Andersonville began to decline slightly as the population was reduced.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/Wirz/anders1.htm (1476 words)

	Georgia Public Lands: Andersonville National Historic Site
		Andersonville, or Camp Sumter as it was officially known, was one of the largest of many Confederate military prisons established during the Civil War.
		It was built early in 1864 after Confederate officials decided to move the large number of Federal prisoners kept in and around Richmond, Virginia, to a place of greater security and a more abundant food supply.
		Today, Andersonville National Historic Site is the only park in the National Park System to serve as a memorial to all American prisoners of war throughout the nation's history.
	www.biggamehunt.net /sections/Georgia/public_lands/Andersonville_National_Historic_Site.html (415 words)

	Prisoners held at Andersonville
		Although Upper Georgia was very rich, lower Georgia was “starved, sterile land, impressing one as a desert in the first stages of reclamation into productive soil, or as productive soil in the last steps of deterioration into a desert.”[5] John McElroy, a prisoner in Andersonville, described in on his first day as an “immense pen”.
		In charge of Fort Sumter (Andersonville) was General John H. Winder with Captain Henri Wirz being the Commander of the interior of the prison.
		Speaking of Andersonville, Hesseltine writes, “Internal discipline, essentially the function of the captors, could not be administered.”[15] In Andersonville there existed a group of prisoners known as the “raiders”.
	spider.georgetowncollege.edu /htallant/courses/his312/cwarger/prisons.htm (3398 words)

	Andersonville
		Andersonville Prison, located in Georgia and operated by the Confederate army, is known for being the worst prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War.
		Andersonville Prison was built to encase a small swamp that had a small creek running under the northern wall of the stockade, then flowed through the prison camp and again under the southern wall of the stockade of Andersonville.
		Andersonville was just a wall of large pine trees in a rectangular stockade about 15-20 feet high that covered 16 acres.
	www.windycreek.com /Andersonville.html (2303 words)

	REPORT OF AN EXPEDITION TO ANDERSONVILLE, GEORGIA, JULY, 1865, FOR THE PURPOSE OF IDENTIFYING THE GRAVES AND ...
		The future of this historic spot cannot fall to constitute a subject of deep and abiding interest to the people of this entire country, and it would seem fitting that it should be preserved as one of the sanctuaries of the nation, and be in due time decorated with appropriate honors.
		During the occupation of Andersonville as a prison, it was a punishable offense for a colored man or woman to feed, shelter, aid, or even converse with the prisoners on parole.
		I have been informed that they were not allowed about the prison grounds; and so great was their superstitious horror of the cruelties perpetrated upon the prisoners that only a comparatively small number had ever found the courage to visit the cemetery up to the time of our arrival.
	www.angelfire.com /ga2/Andersonvilleprison/report.html (3272 words)

	Andersonville
		Camp Sumter, the Prison at Andersonville, Georgia, during the Civil War.
		Andersonville: Cemetery, Park, and Town from the Civil War to the Present.
		McElroy (1846-1929) was a private in Company L of the 16th Illinois Cavalry and a prisoner at Andersonville from February 25 to late November of 1864.
	www.gsw.edu /~library/Andersonville.htm (5784 words)

	Fact Sheets > Andersonville National Historic Site, Andersonville, Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was built early in 1864 after Confederate officials decided to move the large number of Federal prisoners kept in and around Richmond, Virginia, to a place of greater security and a more abundant food supply.
		Today, Andersonville National Historic Site is the only park in the National Park System to serve as a memorial to all American prisoners of war throughout the nation's history.
		The Andersonville Prison Historical Hike is a 3-mile walking history lesson through Andersonville National Historic Site and the town of Andersonville.
	www.fact-sheets.com /travel/national-parks/andersonville (501 words)

	Andersonville - Civil War Village
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		The railroad terminal at Andersonville was the arrival point for 45,000 Federal prisoners destined for incarceration at Camp Sumter also known as the Andersonville Civil War Prison.
		Andersonville also boasts a seven acre pioneer farm which depicts what life was like on a one man farm of the mid 1800s.
	www.andersonvillegeorgia.com (497 words)

	The Story of One Union Soldier - Andersonville Prison
		Andersonville Prison (officially known as Camp Sumter), under the command of Captain Henry Wirz, was to be known for its horrible conditions and low regard for human life.
		(Andersonville: The Last Depot by William Marvel) As the prison population tied to recuperate from the storm, Barney, at the young age of 27, died.
		Barney's body was removed from the prison and buried in the cemetery a quarter of a mile away.
	www.sinclair.edu /sec/his102/mcknight/bm06.htm (673 words)

	Andersonville Prison, February 1864 - April 1865
		The poor food and sanitation, the lack of shelter and health care, the crowding, and the hot Georgia sun all took their toll in the form of dysentery, scurvy, malaria, and exposure.
		Consequently, after being tried by a U.S. military court and convicted of war crimes, the prison's commander, Captain Henry Wirz, was hanged in November 1865 for "impairing the health and destroying the lives of prisoners." Meanwhile, Clara Barton and other government workers compiled a list of 12,912 prisoners who had died at the camp.
		Andersonville's mass graves were replaced by a national cemetery, which is today still used as a burial ground for American veterans.
	www.civilwarhome.com /andersonville.htm (534 words)

	Andersonville, GA News
		It was on this date in 1865 that Andersonville prison commander Henry Wirz was hanged.
		From Carolyn Kleiner's " The Demon of Andersonville " : During the last 14 months of the Civil War, nearly 13,000 Union prisoners of war died at the Confederate prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia - more than...
		Georgia Agriculture Department Rescues Starving Horses and Donkeys In Macon County
	www.topix.net /city/andersonville-ga (543 words)

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