Hundreds of men were taken as prisoners of war to Confederate prison camps in the south. Andersonville Prison, nestled in a rural, quiet town in Georgia, was the most deadly. It was massively ...

A few minutes past 10 a.m., Nov. 10, 1865, former Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp commander Capt. Henry Wirz walked briskly from the Old Capitol prison in Washington D.C., where he had been ...

The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down ...

Camp Sumter, also known as Andersonville prison, housed 45,000 captured Union soldiers during the Civil War. Conditions at ...

Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged on Nov. 10, 1865, in Washington, D.C., the only Confederate officer executed as a war criminal.