United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Andersonville, 32.19599, -84.139911864-08-17Union prisoners of war are being buried at the Civil War prison at Camp Sumter, or Andersonville.This photograph shows dead Union prisoners of war being buried at the Civil War prison at Camp Sumter, or Andersonville. A long trench runs up the center of the photograph. A group of men stands in and around the trench, and several bodies lie in the trench. A stand of trees lines the background. This grave yard ultimately held the bodies of 13,705 Union prisoners. 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, 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--AndersonvilleAndersonville PrisonMen--Georgia--AndersonvilleDeadBurial--Georgia--AndersonvilleMass burials--Georgia--AndersonvilleTrenches--Georgia--AndersonvilleTrees--Georgia--AndersonvilleUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisonsBurying SoldiersStillImage