- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Andersonville Prison
- Date of Original:
- 1860/1869
- Subject:
- Prisons--Georgia--Andersonville
Confederate States of America. Army Prisons
Prisoners of war--Georgia--Andersonville
Military prisons--Georgia--Andersonville
Tents--Georgia--Andersonville
Confederate States of America
Andersonville Prison
Men--Georgia--Andersonville
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Andersonville, 32.19599, -84.13991
- Medium:
- drawings (visual works)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- By August 1864, Andersonville prison's population reached its greatest number, with more than 33,000 men incarcerated in the camp.
Image of a drawing depicting a scene from the Andersonville Prison. Men are shown lying and kneeling on the ground in a large treeless field.
In February 1864, during the Civil War (1861-65), a Confederate prison was established in Sumter County, in southwest Georgia, to provide relief for the large number of Union prisoners concentrated in and around Richmond, Virginia. The new camp, officially named Camp Sumter, quickly became known as Andersonville. Andersonville had the highest mortality rate of any Civil War prison. Nearly 13,000 of the 45,000 men who entered the stockade died there, chiefly of malnutrition. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/andersonville-prison/m-1596/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
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- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/andersonville-prison
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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