The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

These weren't wealthy passengers or prominent names, but Union soldiers, freshly released from Confederate prison camps like Andersonville and Cahaba. Starved. Sick. Forgotten already by a country ...

The site includes Andersonville National Cemetery and Camp Sumter Military Prison, plus the National POW Museum, with its heart-rending Memorial Courtyard and sculptures. Leaving the Civil War ...

The Andersonville National Historic Site is the site of the Camp Sumter Civil War Military Prison, home of the National Prisoner of War Museum, and the site of the Anderson National Cemetery.

Over four unforgettable days, a group of Bainbridge Middle School 8th Grade students embarked on a meaningful journey through ...

Another Knoxvillian to survive the explosion was James M. Johnson. Many of the soldiers aboard the ship were survivors of the notorious Confederate prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia. The prison ...

Lt. Nelson Purdum was a Ross County native, who lived in Springfield Township. During the Battle of Chickamauga, Purdum is ...

The NT government says a proposed new prison work camp near Katherine would help alleviate pressure from the territory's overloaded prisons in Darwin and Alice Springs. The government is also ...

A surge of Sudanese refugees fleeing the ongoing civil war are overwhelming eastern Chad, with the Touloum camp facing severe overcrowding and resource shortages. Malnutrition is rampant ...

In this way, and others, CECOT qualifies not only as a prison but a concentration camp. That might be a shocking allegation given the term’s association with Nazis, but as the author of a global ...