United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Andersonville, 32.19599, -84.139911860/1869By 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.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/andersonville-prisonForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/andersonville-prisonForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaPrisons--Georgia--AndersonvilleConfederate States of America. Army PrisonsPrisoners of war--Georgia--AndersonvilleMilitary prisons--Georgia--AndersonvilleTents--Georgia--AndersonvilleConfederate States of AmericaAndersonville PrisonMen--Georgia--AndersonvilleUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisonsAndersonville PrisonStillImage