United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Andersonville, 32.19599, -84.139911864-08-17This southwest view of the Camp Sumter, or Andersonville, stockade shows Union prisoners of war. By the summer of 1864, the Civil War prison held the largest prison population of its time.This southwest view of the Camp Sumter, or Andersonville, stockade, in southwest Georgia, shows Union prisoners of war. Men stand near wooden walls. The prison holds hundreds of tents.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/jpegAndersonville Prison photographs, 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, 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--AndersonvilleConfederate States of AmericaAndersonville PrisonMen--Georgia--AndersonvilleUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisonsUnion Prisoners, AndersonvilleStillImage