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 ...
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 ...