United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Andersonville, 32.19599, -84.139911864-08-17View of Camp Sumter, or Andersonville, from the northwest. Union prisoners of war were held in the Civil War prison, which was established in 1864.View of Camp Sumter, or Andersonville, from the northwest. Small tents fill the landscape.In February 1864, during the Civil War (1861-65), a Confederate prison was established in Macon 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/jpegAndersonville Prison photographs, Ms 1756, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, GAhttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/andersonville-prisonForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/Andersonville Prison photographs, Ms 1756, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, GAhttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/andersonville-prisonForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaAndersonville Prison PhotographsPrisons--Georgia--AndersonvilleConfederate States of America. Army--PrisonsPrisoners of war--Georgia--AndersonvilleMilitary prisons--Georgia--AndersonvilleTents--Georgia--AndersonvilleAndersonville PrisonUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisonsAndersonville PrisonStillImage