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Nearly 13,000 soldiers died at this Civil War site. Andersonville National Historic Site is preserving their memory.
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.
Among the prominent Civil War veterans laid to rest in the ... that Thomas O'Dea created from his memories at Camp Sumter prison in Andersonville, Ga. He drew the large bird's-eye, panoramic ...
The deadliest ground of the American Civil War lies in rural southwest ... Known to history as Andersonville Prison, after the nearby village, Camp Sumter was a place of horror and despair.
A funeral for the nearly 13,000 Union soldiers and civilian captives who died at Andersonville prison ... for all those who died at the Confederate prison camp — many from starvation and ...
It’s a horrific story about a sad chapter in the nation’s history: the Civil War. Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter, was a Georgia prison used for impounding Union Soldiers during the ...
The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down ...