Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter, was a Georgia prison used for impounding Union Soldiers during the last 14 months of the Civil War. Andersonville encompassed 26.5 acres and was ...

Here's what to know. What happened at Andersonville in the Civil War? Andersonville was the site of the largest prison in the Civil War, Camp Sumter. "The prison itself was not fully prepared to ...

© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. After surviving the Confederates’ notorious Andersonville Prison, Thomas O’Dea spent more than five ...

He survived the harrowing conditions of the Confederate prison Andersonville before coming to Cohoes and sketching a famous drawing of the misery he endured there. O'Dea was a 19th-century ...

Gray’s episode will focus on Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prison camp in Georgia. Infamous for its brutal conditions, lack of food and overcrowding, approximately 13,000 of the roughly ...

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 ...

Dr. Michael Gray’s episode of ‘Prison Chronicles’ will focus on Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prison camp in Georgia. Infamous for its brutal conditions, lack of food and overcrowding ...

The counsel for Capt. WERTZ, keeper of the Andersonville Prison, come out in a card asking for a suspension of public judgment until his trial is finished. They do not pretend to deny the atrocities.